[rhelv6-list] yum update fails / problem

Götz Reinicke goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de
Mon Nov 21 08:11:37 UTC 2011


Hi,

thanks for your suggestion, but that posting did not help me :-/

I tried a lot of suggested remove, update, rebuild rpm things without
success. How might i 'force' python to use UTF-8?

	Regards

Am 18.11.11 11:28, schrieb Gabriel S. Craciun:
> Quote users at lists.fedoraproject.org:
> 
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/384432
> 
> 
> 
> "It seems that there are characters on your system that are not in the
> ASCII range.  In particular, character 0xc3.  For some reason, your
> version of python is not using UTF-8, which I thought was now the norm.
> 
> You can try running  yum clean metadata  or  yum clean all  to clear
> out possibly erroneous information, and run yum update or whatever you
> want."
> 
> 
> Hope that helpS!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Götz Reinicke
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:55 AM
> To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com >> "'rhelv6-list at redhat.com'"
> Subject: [rhelv6-list] yum update fails / problem
> 
> Hi,
> 
> may be someone has an idea what's broken on one of our RH EL 6.1 server.
> I tried all suggestions from the centosforum
> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20237 but without success.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestion . best Regards . Götz
> 
> 
> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
> 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 274, in user_main
>     errcode = main(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 129, in main
>     result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 432, in doCommands
>     self._getTs(needTsRemove)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 99, in _getTs
>     self._getTsInfo(remove_only)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 110, in _getTsInfo
>     pkgSack = self.pkgSack
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 882, in <lambda>
>     pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 668, in _getSacks
>     self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 260, in populateSack
>     self.doSetup()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 72, in doSetup
>     self.ayum.plugins.run('prereposetup')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 184, in run
>     func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
>   File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 121, in prereposetup_hook
>     str(e))
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateErrors.py", line 177, in __repr__
>     "The message was:\n") + self.errmsg
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 6:
> ordinal not in range(128)


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