Description of problem: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'> Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc9 in position 36: ordinal not in range(128) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3612, in <module> main() File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3609, in main backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 759, in dispatcher self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 603, in dispatch_command self.get_details(package_ids) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2590, in get_details self._show_details_pkg(pkg) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2614, in _show_details_pkg self.details(package_id, pkg.license, group, desc, pkg.url, size) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 308, in details PackageKitBaseBackend.details(self, package_id, package_license, group, desc, url, bytes) File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 233, in details print >> sys.stdout, "details\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$ld" $ (package_id, package_license, group, desc, url, bytes) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-packagekit-2.32.0-2.fc14.x86_64 PackageKit-yum-0.6.12-3.fc14.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Gnome Package Kit (gpk-application) 2. Search for hunspell 3. Select hunspell-ak Actual results: A window pops up saying "an internal error has occurred" with the backtrace above. Expected results: The package's description should be displayed in the lower panel, like for other package. No error. Additional info: It look like for some reason Gnome PackageKit does not like the non-ascii characters in the URL tag in the RPM: rpm -qi hunspell-ak Name : hunspell-ak Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.6 Vendor: Fedora Project Release : 1.fc14 Build Date: tor 25 feb 2010 21.46.36 Install Date: fre 8 jul 2011 13.43.44 Build Host: xb-01.phx2.fedoraproject.org Group : Applications/Text Source RPM: hunspell-ak-0.6-1.fc14.src.rpm Size : 54343 License: LGPLv3 Signature : RSA/SHA256, sön 25 jul 2010 05.27.59, Key ID 421caddb97a1071f Packager : Fedora Project URL : http://kasahorow.org/content/akan-nsɛmfuaasekyerɛ Summary : Akan hunspell dictionaries Description : Akan hunspell dictionaries.
I can reproduce this. Fixing now.
commit 7f752fe0241dde3c42ddda18ec93fed3977290e4 Author: Richard Hughes <richard> Date: Fri Jul 8 13:51:34 2011 +0100 yum: Manually convert the results of GetDetails to unicode. Fixes rh#719916 This will be included in the next upstream release release, which is in about a months time. Thanks for reporting this bug.
PackageKit-0.6.17-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/PackageKit-0.6.17-1.fc15
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PackageKit-0.6.17-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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