the following output happens way to often with dependcy problems - i can remember times were yum created useful errormessages with them you could solve nearly any dep-trouble by a temporary "rpm -e --nodpes" currently i am sitting here wild guessing what package to remove for upgrade a testmachine F15->F16 Führe rpm_check_debug durch FEHLER mit rpm_check_debug gegen depsolve: 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 267, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 203, in main return_code = base.doTransaction() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 524, 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 21: ordinal not in range(128)
I can't reproduce this bug. to_utf8() didn't fail, since it's frame is not included in the traceback. So, it must have returned an utf8-encoded str. 'print' then tries to *decode* it from ascii to unicode and fails, obviously. But I have no idea why Python does that. Perhaps there's some implicit str => unicode conversion? # this is what we want to do $ python -c "print u'\u011b'.encode('utf8')" # this is what Python does $ python -c "print u'\u011b'.encode('utf8') + u''" What locale setting are you using? Which Python version?
it was a F15 with recent updates german locale it happened by "yum --releasever=16 distro-sync" on a machine with only internal repos which had clamav-packages which are removed from the repo the strange is taht dependencies are completly solved and this happen while depsolve after confirm / download "yum remove clamav\*" solved the issue but i remember times where "depsolve" gave useful output in such cases
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