Bug 860276 - UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)
Summary: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position ...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 858591
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firstboot
Version: 18
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Sivák
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:271f48cbd34125b0ffee8a5b8cb...
Depends On:
Blocks: F18Beta, F18BetaBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-25 13:03 UTC by Martin
Modified: 2014-09-15 00:03 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-10-03 18:00:39 UTC
Type: ---
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File: other involved packages (32 bytes, text/plain)
2012-09-25 13:03 UTC, Martin 		no flags Details
File: type (9 bytes, text/plain)
2012-09-25 13:03 UTC, Martin 		no flags Details
File: environ (131 bytes, text/plain)
2012-09-25 13:03 UTC, Martin 		no flags Details
File: release (33 bytes, text/plain)
2012-09-25 13:03 UTC, Martin 		no flags Details
File: hashmarkername (9 bytes, text/plain)
2012-09-25 13:03 UTC, Martin 		no flags Details
File: firstboot-tb (2.35 KB, text/plain)
2012-09-25 13:03 UTC, Martin 		no flags Details
File: description (1.19 KB, text/plain)
2012-09-25 13:03 UTC, Martin 		no flags Details
/var/log/messages showing locale-related messages and a traceback (160.83 KB, text/plain)
2012-10-03 16:18 UTC, Steve Tyler 		no flags Details
/var/log/messages when installing in English (296.23 KB, text/plain)
2012-10-03 18:43 UTC, Steve Tyler 		no flags Details
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Description Martin 2012-09-25 13:03:05 UTC 
Version-Release number of selected component:
firstboot-18.3-1.fc18.x86_64

Additional info:
libreport version: 2.0.12
cmdline:        /usr/bin/python  /usr/sbin/firstboot
kernel:         3.6.0-0.rc6.git0.2.fc18.x86_64
Comment 1 Martin 2012-09-25 13:03:08 UTC 
Created attachment 617018 [details]
File: other involved packages
Comment 2 Martin 2012-09-25 13:03:10 UTC 
Created attachment 617019 [details]
File: type
Comment 3 Martin 2012-09-25 13:03:12 UTC 
Created attachment 617020 [details]
File: environ
Comment 4 Martin 2012-09-25 13:03:14 UTC 
Created attachment 617021 [details]
File: release
Comment 5 Martin 2012-09-25 13:03:16 UTC 
Created attachment 617022 [details]
File: hashmarkername
Comment 6 Martin 2012-09-25 13:03:18 UTC 
Created attachment 617023 [details]
File: firstboot-tb
Comment 7 Martin 2012-09-25 13:03:20 UTC 
Created attachment 617024 [details]
File: description
Comment 8 Adam Williamson 2012-09-26 20:45:04 UTC 
Discussed at 2012-09-26 blocker review meeting: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-qa/2012-09-26/f18-beta-blocker-review-1.2012-09-26-16.03.log.txt . We agreed to delay decision on this one till we have more data. Martin, how did you trigger this?
Comment 9 Akira TAGOH 2012-09-27 01:17:22 UTC 
After further investigation, this looks like a side-effect of Bug#858591. I tried to run firstboot from the terminal with LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8. no errors, but with LANG=ja.UTF-8, it happens.
Comment 10 Steve Tyler 2012-10-03 16:18:24 UTC 
Created attachment 621011 [details]
/var/log/messages showing locale-related messages and a traceback

Reproduced by selecting Spanish as the language to be used during the install and for the installed system. /var/log/messages shows locale-related messages from firstboot and metacity and a traceback from firstboot.

Procedure:
1. In a VM, boot Fedora-18-Nightly-20120930.12-x86_64-Live-desktop.iso.
2. # yum update anaconda # install latest anaconda in live environment
3. Start the installer from the live desktop.
4. Select Spanish as the language to be used during installation and for the installed system.
5. Reboot into the installed system.

Results:
1. firstboot fails to start.
2. The locale files show invalid locales:

[root@localhost xfr]# cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="es.UTF-8"
[root@localhost xfr]# cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG="es.UTF-8"

Version info:
anaconda-0:18.11-1.fc18.x86_64
firstboot-18.3-1.fc18.x86_64
Fedora-18-Nightly-20120930.12-x86_64-Live-desktop.iso

Command-line:
$ qemu-kvm -m 2048 -hda f18-test-2.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/nightly-composes/Fedora-18-Nightly-20120930.12-x86_64-Live-desktop.iso -vga qxl -boot order=dc,menu=on
Comment 11 Adam Williamson 2012-10-03 18:00:39 UTC 
I confirm this clearly seems to be a consequence of 858591. 'LC_ALL=es.UTF-8 firstboot' crashes, 'LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8 firstboot' runs. Closing this as a dupe of 858591. This also gives us a solid basis to accept 858591 as a blocker.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 858591 ***
Comment 12 Steve Tyler 2012-10-03 18:43:05 UTC 
Created attachment 621069 [details]
/var/log/messages when installing in English

This may be moot, but it appears that if you install in English, you can get through firstboot and to a desktop despite the invalid en.UTF-8 locale. I'm attaching /var/log/messages from a test install with English as the target language in case someone wants to figure out why ...
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