[Spacewalk-list] 1.9 and Unicode

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:21:20PM +0200, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> 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?

If you apply the following patch to your
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/common/rhnTB.py
and restart httpd -- does it address the issue for you?

diff --git a/backend/common/rhnTB.py b/backend/common/rhnTB.py
index 7c0d5e7..6868d6e 100644
--- a/backend/common/rhnTB.py
+++ b/backend/common/rhnTB.py
@@ -147,7 +147,11 @@ def Traceback(method = None, req = None, mail = 1, ostream = sys.stderr,
 
     # we always log it somewhere
     if ostream:
-        ostream.write("%s\n" % exc.getvalue().encode('utf-8'))
+        the_value = exc.getvalue()
+        if isinstance(the_value):
+            ostream.write("%s\n" % exc.getvalue().encode('utf-8'))
+        else:
+            ostream.write("%s\n" % exc.getvalue())
 
     if mail:
         # print the stack frames for the mail we send out

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat