Description of problem:
UTF-8 encodeing Problem in python backend  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
spacewalk-backend-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
Use of UTF-8 chars.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. rhn_check on client side
  
Actual results:

[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ] mod_wsgi (pid=20401): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/usr/share/rhn/wsgi/xmlrpc.py'.
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]   File "/usr/share/rhn/wsgi/xmlrpc.py", line 22, in application
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]     return wsgiHandler.handle(environ, start_response, "xmlrpc", "server.xmlrpc")
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]   File "/usr/share/rhn/wsgi/wsgiHandler.py", line 45, in handle
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]     ret = appServ(req)
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheHandler.py", line 196, in handler
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]     ret = self._req_processor.process()
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheRequest.py", line 476, in process
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]     return self.call_function(method, params)
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheRequest.py", line 174, in call_function
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]     Traceback(method, self.req, severity="unhandled")
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/common/rhnTB.py", line 150, in Traceback
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]     ostream.write("%s\\n" % exc.getvalue().encode('utf-8'))
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/StringIO.py", line 270, in getvalue
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ]     self.buf += ''.join(self.buflist)
[Fri Jan 04 11:48:10 2013] [error] [client XXX ] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128)



Expected results:


Additional info:

How to Fix it:

change of Line 150 in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/common/rhnTB.py

- ostream.write("%s\n" % exc.getvalue().encode('utf-8'))
+ ostream.write("%s\n" % unicode(exc.getvalue(),errors='replace'))

for example.

current version:
spacewalk-backend-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
python-2.6.6-29.el6_3.3.x86_64

Bug in Package:
spacewalk-backend-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch