Bug 590232 - UnicodeEncodeError prevents starting of liveusb-creator
Summary: UnicodeEncodeError prevents starting of liveusb-creator
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: liveusb-creator
Version: 14
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Luke Macken
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 567899 577602 600911 717356 736643 768940 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-08 08:56 UTC by Rudolf Kastl
Modified: 2016-09-20 02:40 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-06-26 00:33:21 UTC
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Description Rudolf Kastl 2010-05-08 08:56:13 UTC
Description of problem:
liveusb-creator 
(3135) KIconCache::Private::themeDirsChanged: Theme directory has been modified
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/liveusb-creator", line 87, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/liveusb-creator", line 82, in main
    LiveUSBApp(opts, sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/liveusb/gui.py", line 55, in __init__
    self.mywindow = LiveUSBDialog(opts, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/liveusb/gui.py", line 255, in __init__
    self.populate_devices()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/liveusb/gui.py", line 284, in populate_devices
    self.live.detect_removable_drives()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/liveusb/creator.py", line 435, in detect_removable_drives
    self._add_device(child, parent=dev)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/liveusb/creator.py", line 463, in _add_device
    'label'   : str(dev.GetProperty('volume.label')).replace(' ', '_'),
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u065b' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
liveusb-creator-3.9.1-1.fc13.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 11:34:38 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Christoph Wickert 2010-11-29 11:07:01 UTC
*** Bug 577602 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Christoph Wickert 2010-11-29 11:07:07 UTC
*** Bug 567899 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Christoph Wickert 2010-11-29 11:13:09 UTC
*** Bug 600911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Łukasz Mierzwa 2011-01-01 15:29:59 UTC
Package: liveusb-creator-3.9.2-2.fc14
Architecture: i686
OS Release: Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)


How to reproduce
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1. Start "Fedora LiveUSB Creator" from start menu
2. abrt window pops up, "Fedora LiveUSB Creator" does not run 

Comment
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Probably locale related, my locale

LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Comment 6 Thomas Ahle 2011-05-04 20:25:07 UTC
This happens on my system because my media is named "Nøglen" and so the mount point "/media/Nøglen" can't be encoded in ascii.

Bug 690451 is a duplicate of this.

Comment 7 Luke Macken 2012-06-12 17:48:08 UTC
*** Bug 717356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Luke Macken 2012-06-12 17:50:40 UTC
*** Bug 736643 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-06-12 17:55:09 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc16

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2012-06-12 17:55:20 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc17

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2012-06-12 17:55:30 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.el6

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2012-06-12 17:55:40 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc15

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2012-06-15 00:24:47 UTC
Package liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-9384/liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 14 Luke Macken 2012-06-22 16:19:23 UTC
*** Bug 768940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2012-06-26 00:33:21 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2012-06-26 00:34:45 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2012-06-26 00:35:28 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2012-07-01 01:35:51 UTC
liveusb-creator-3.11.7-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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