Bug 788010 - yum fails upgrade/update of certain packages, because of Unicode Decode Errors
Summary: yum fails upgrade/update of certain packages, because of Unicode Decode Errors
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-07 08:30 UTC by Thomas Schweikle
Modified: 2015-02-17 16:59 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 14:05:47 UTC
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Description Thomas Schweikle 2012-02-07 08:30:42 UTC
Description of problem:
yum fails upgrades after downloading packages with error:
Running Transaction Check
FEHLER Sie müssen RPM aktualisieren, damit es mit Folgendem umgehen kann:
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 321, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in main
    return_code = base.doTransaction()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 584, in doTransaction
    print to_utf8(msg)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/codecs.py", line 351, in write
    data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 40: ordinal not in range(128)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.4.3-18.fc17.noarch
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-6.fc17.x86_64
yum-plugin-security-1.1.31-4.fc17.noarch
yum-utils-1.1.31-4.fc17.noarch
rpm-4.9.1.2-11.fc17.x86_64
rpm-build-libs-4.9.1.2-11.fc17.x86_64
rpm-libs-4.9.1.2-11.fc17.x86_64
rpm-python-4.9.1.2-11.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fedora, enable rawhide,
   upgrade to latest rpm and yum versions
2. do "yum -y --skip-broken upgrade"
3. yum fails telling about "UnicodeDecodeError:
   'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in
   position 40: ordinal not in range(128)"
  
Actual results:
Nothing installed, nothing upgraded.


Expected results:
Upgrade running and done.

Additional info:
Yum tells about rpm not the latest version, but looking at the version installed and the version available they are the same. Removing rpm and reinstalling doesn't help. Same version again.

Comment 1 Thomas Schweikle 2012-02-07 08:37:40 UTC
Trying to install downloaded packages from /var/cache/yum/x86_64/17/rawhide/packages directly using "rpm -vhU *" gives back error:
warning: bacula-client-5.2.5-2.fc17.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 1aca3465: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
        rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) is needed by filesystem-3-2.fc17.x86_64

But rpm-libs is installed:
rpm-libs-4.9.1.2-11.fc17.x86_64

And a package "rpmlib" is not available.

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2012-02-07 08:45:46 UTC
rpmlib() dependencies do not reflect packages, they reflect various capabilities of the running rpm. rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) is a Fedora-specific guard related to this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove

Comment 3 Franck Waechter 2012-02-16 10:10:41 UTC
For help, I have followed these steps to upgrade from F16 to F17 :

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 17:38:00 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2015-01-09 16:59:31 UTC
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Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2015-02-17 14:05:47 UTC
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