Description of problem: Getting a backtrace from yum update (without LANG=C). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.27-17.fc14 Steps to Reproduce: $ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 yum update Actual results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 258, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 196, in main return_code = base.doTransaction() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 544, in doTransaction resultobject = self.runTransaction(cb=cb) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1328, in runTransaction self.skipped_packages, rpmdb_problems, cmdline) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 500, in beg self._trans_rpmdb_problem(problem) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 433, in _trans_rpmdb_problem to_unicode(str(problem)))) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u306f' in position 39: ordinal not in range(128) Expected results: No backtrace Additional info: LANG=C etc works around it.
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
Created attachment 436948 [details] output from yum Can be reproduced even with yum-3.2.28-1.fc14.noarch (currently in f14-updates-testing).
I think bug 619784 is a dup of this.
yum-3.2.28-2.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.28-2.fc12
yum-3.2.28-2.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.28-2.fc14
yum-3.2.28-2.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.28-2.fc13
yum-3.2.28-2.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.28-2.fc13
yum-3.2.28-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.28-2.fc12
yum-3.2.28-2.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.28-2.fc14
yum-3.2.28-3.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.28-3.fc12
yum-3.2.28-3.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.28-3.fc13
yum-3.2.28-3.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.28-3.fc14
yum-3.2.28-3.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
yum-3.2.28-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
yum-3.2.28-3.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.