Bug 479519 - ksvalidator tracebacks with UnicodeDecodeError
Summary: ksvalidator tracebacks with UnicodeDecodeError
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pykickstart
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Chris Lumens
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-01-10 15:38 UTC by Dan Horák
Modified: 2010-06-28 11:05 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 11:05:19 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Patch for ksvalidator in pykickstart 1.50 (1.27 KB, patch)
2009-01-15 23:13 UTC, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
no flags Details | Diff
Better ksvalidator patch (416 bytes, patch)
2009-01-15 23:25 UTC, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
no flags Details | Diff

Description Dan Horák 2009-01-10 15:38:46 UTC
running ksvalidator without any parameter on rawhide gives a traceback, package is pykickstart-1.49-1.fc11.noarch

[dan@localhost ~]$ ksvalidator 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ksvalidator", line 61, in <module>
    op.print_help()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1648, in print_help
    file.write(self.format_help().encode(encoding, "replace"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 134: ordinal not in range(128)


the same in F-10 with pykickstart-1.47-1.fc10.noarch

[dan@eagle cdcollect]$ ksvalidator 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ksvalidator", line 61, in <module>
    op.print_help()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1655, in print_help
    file.write(self.format_help().encode(encoding, "replace"))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 134: ordinal not in range(128)

I am running with LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8

Comment 1 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2009-01-15 22:45:19 UTC
Lovely. An ancient issue.

http://bugs.python.org/issue2931

Comment 2 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2009-01-15 23:13:04 UTC
Created attachment 329149 [details]
Patch for ksvalidator in pykickstart 1.50

This patch fixes the issue in an ugly way. I'd rather that it be fixed in Python directly though.

Comment 3 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2009-01-15 23:25:59 UTC
Created attachment 329151 [details]
Better ksvalidator patch

Okay, after doing some reading I've decided that this isn't a Python bug after all, but rather a bug in how gettext is being used.

Comment 4 James Antill 2009-01-16 06:25:49 UTC
I'm suspicious given that we have hacks in yum to work around optparse blowing up in the same way ... also using install() means that _ is put in the global namespace (pointing to the ksvalidator domain) ... is that valid?

Also _() is now returning unicode and not str() as it did before the patch, that could be a huge change for the rest of the code.

On the other hand, the hack in yum to make it work is hella ugly and _() returns unicode in yum ... and getting optparse fixed is unlikely, so have fun Dan :)...

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 10:38:51 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 6 Chris Lumens 2009-09-09 21:20:44 UTC
This patch makes me a little nervous, but the worst that can happen is it breaks other things and I have to back it out.  Let's see what happens.

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