[Spacewalk-list] 1.9 and Unicode

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 05:47:28PM -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> Hi!, I've succesfully installed Spacewalk 1.8 in the past, but for a
> new installation of 1.9 I'm seeing an error that seems related to
> Unicode.
> 
> 
> I get this trying to add a client with:
> 
> --
> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://server/XMLRPC --activationkey=1-centos6
> --
> 
> ---
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201] mod_wsgi (pid=2474): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/usr/share/rhn/wsgi/xmlrpc.py'.
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201] Traceback (most recent call last):
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]   File "/usr/share/rhn/wsgi/xmlrpc.py", line 22, in application
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]     return wsgiHandler.handle(environ, start_response, "xmlrpc", "server.xmlrpc")
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]   File "/usr/share/rhn/wsgi/wsgiHandler.py", line 45, in handle
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]     ret = appServ(req)
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheHandler.py", line 196, in handler
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]     ret = self._req_processor.process()
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheRequest.py", line 476, in process
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]     return self.call_function(method, params)
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheRequest.py", line 174, in call_function
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201] Traceback(method, self.req, severity="unhandled")
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/common/rhnTB.py", line 150, in Traceback
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201] ostream.write("%s\\n" % exc.getvalue().encode('utf-8'))
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/StringIO.py", line 270, in getvalue
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201]     self.buf += ''.join(self.buflist)
> [Sun Apr 28 17:42:46 2013] [error] [client 10.1.20.201] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 48: ordinal not in range(128)
>

If you run that rhnreg_ks with a --nohardware or --nopackages option
-- does the error go away?

-- 
Jan Pazdziora | adelton at #satellite*, #brno
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat