Unicode bug on RHEL5 (ex: "adding repo - oddity" thread)

[L B]

Hello,

 Even after an upgrade to Cobbler 1.6.6 on RHEL5, I still had the
unicode bug adding "u" in front of profiles,repos etc...

I fixed this problem by upgrading python-simplejson to version 2.0.5
replacing EPEL RPM by rpmforge RPM (instead of 2.0.3).

Package here : http://packages.sw.be/python-simplejson/  and then rpm -Uvh

Hope it helps,
-- 
L.B.

[James Cammarata]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:06:40 +0200, L B <bertignac(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hello,
>  
>   Even after an upgrade to Cobbler 1.6.6 on RHEL5, I still had the
>  unicode bug adding "u" in front of profiles,repos etc...
>  
>  I fixed this problem by upgrading python-simplejson to version 2.0.5
>  replacing EPEL RPM by rpmforge RPM (instead of 2.0.3).
>  
>  Package here : http://packages.sw.be/python-simplejson/  and then rpm 
-Uvh
>  
>  Hope it helps,
>  -- 
>  L.B. 
Yes this is a known issue, not sure if we're planning on requiring
simplejson >= 2.0.5 (would seem to make sense to), but that is the correct
fix.

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[Michael DeHaan]

James Cammarata wrote:
>  On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:06:40 +0200, L B <bertignac(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
>    
> > Hello,
> >
> >  Even after an upgrade to Cobbler 1.6.6 on RHEL5, I still had the
> > unicode bug adding "u" in front of profiles,repos etc...
> >
> > I fixed this problem by upgrading python-simplejson to version 2.0.5
> > replacing EPEL RPM by rpmforge RPM (instead of 2.0.3).
> >
> > Package here : http://packages.sw.be/python-simplejson/  and then rpm
> >     
>  -Uvh
>    
> > Hope it helps,
> > -- 
> > L.B.
> >     
>
>  Yes this is a known issue, not sure if we're planning on requiring
>  simplejson >= 2.0.5 (would seem to make sense to), but that is the correct
>  fix.
>
>     
This /is/ a known issue? Pointers to the bug tracker?

Requiring 2.0 on EL 4 is impossible since the package does not play nice 
there.

If someone wants to try to find some workaround that does not require 
simplejson upgrades, be my guest -- that's what we'll have to do.

--Michael

[James Cammarata]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:49:51 -0400, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan(a)redhat.com&gt;
wrote:
>  James Cammarata wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:06:40 +0200, L B <bertignac(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>  Even after an upgrade to Cobbler 1.6.6 on RHEL5, I still had the
> >> unicode bug adding "u" in front of profiles,repos etc...
> >>
> >> I fixed this problem by upgrading python-simplejson to version 2.0.5
> >> replacing EPEL RPM by rpmforge RPM (instead of 2.0.3).
> >>
> >> Package here : http://packages.sw.be/python-simplejson/  and then rpm
> >>     
> > -Uvh
> >   
> >> Hope it helps,
> >> -- 
> >> L.B.
> >>     
> >
> > Yes this is a known issue, not sure if we're planning on requiring
> > simplejson >= 2.0.5 (would seem to make sense to), but that is the
> > correct
> > fix.
> >
> >   
>  
>  This /is/ a known issue? Pointers to the bug tracker?
>  
>  Requiring 2.0 on EL 4 is impossible since the package does not play nice 
>  there.
>  
>  If someone wants to try to find some workaround that does not require 
>  simplejson upgrades, be my guest -- that's what we'll have to do.
>  
>  --Michael 
I thought the lowest working simplejson version was 2.0.5.  That's the
version I upgraded to to fix my issues, though I never tried with 2.0.3.

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[Michael DeHaan]

L B wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>   Even after an upgrade to Cobbler 1.6.6 on RHEL5, I still had the
>  unicode bug adding "u" in front of profiles,repos etc...
>
>  I fixed this problem by upgrading python-simplejson to version 2.0.5
>  replacing EPEL RPM by rpmforge RPM (instead of 2.0.3).
>
>  Package here : http://packages.sw.be/python-simplejson/  and then rpm -Uvh
>
>  Hope it helps,
>     
I am pretty sure this problem is gone and there is not a regression 
between 2.0.3 and 2.0.5.

If you can point me to a defect filed against simplejson that says 
otherwise, please let me know though.

It may just be that you had some old entries you still had to correct.

--Michael

[L B]

Michael,

 If by old entries you mean configuration files with fields such as
'uEL-5-i386', I'm sure I hadn't anymore (grep -ri uEL /var/lib/cobbler
gave nothing) I was looking for this string everywhere, so I'm sure I
hadn't any. And the upgrade of simplejson definitely fixed the
problem.

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LB

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Michael DeHaan<mdehaan(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>  L B wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >  Even after an upgrade to Cobbler 1.6.6 on RHEL5, I still had the
> > unicode bug adding "u" in front of profiles,repos etc...
> >
> > I fixed this problem by upgrading python-simplejson to version 2.0.5
> > replacing EPEL RPM by rpmforge RPM (instead of 2.0.3).
> >
> > Package here : http://packages.sw.be/python-simplejson/  and then rpm -Uvh
> >
> > Hope it helps,
> >
>
>  I am pretty sure this problem is gone and there is not a regression
>  between 2.0.3 and 2.0.5.
>
>  If you can point me to a defect filed against simplejson that says
>  otherwise, please let me know though.
>
>  It may just be that you had some old entries you still had to correct.
>
>  --Michael
>
>
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