Description of problem: When installing a package from local file (VMware-server-2.0.0-122956.x86_64.rpm), a popup appears and asks me to report the following to "my distribution bug tracking system" : Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'> Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 65: ordinal not in range(128) File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py, line 376, in callback self._instProgress( bytes, total, h ) File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py, line 457, in _instProgress self.complete_actions, self.total_actions) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2173, in event self._showName(self.info_actions[action]) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2166, in _showName self.base.package(package_id, status, self.curpkg.summary) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 224, in package PackageKitBaseBackend.package(self, package_id, status, summary) File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 109, in package print >> sys.stdout, "package\t$s\t$s\t$s" $ (status, package_id, summary) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [loic@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep packagekit gnome-packagekit-0.3.13-1.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: Everytime I try on fedora 10. This RPM installed just fine on Fedora 8. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Download VMWare Server install RPM 2.double-click the install RPM 3.answer the questions until the install starts, and wait for it to crash Actual results: See above. When clicking the "Close" button in this error window, the process terminates and the software isn't installed. Expected results: Software properly installed Additional info: This very same RPM file installed just fine on Fedora 8 (backed it up before reinstalling my system with Fedora 10 tonight). AMDx2 x86_64 with 2Gb RAM, fresh install of fedora 10 French locale
In fedora10 i386 with russian language it remains an actual problem.
Is it just the vmware rpm, or others as well? Can you describe how I can reproduce this please -- also, is the problem still present on the alpha/beta livecd? Thanks. Richard.
I receive this error with any .rpm You can reproduce this by: 1. install fedora 10 with default russian (or french, i think) language 2. download any .rpm (for example - adobe flash player rpm) and save it in default Downloads directory (in russian called загрузки) 3. run this .rpm file from Nautilus or by gnome-open from console This problem still present on beta (i think) fedora i386 dvd. I have downloaded it from http://fedoraproject.org/ru/get-fedora-all -> i386 - Скачать DVD http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 480440 ***