PackageKit: Could not get update details

[Michael Schwendt]

A normal "yum update" yesterday has not fixed it. Today the Updater runs
into this exception again. No idea which package it refers to. It could be
an already installed package found in the local RPM DB (such a problem has
been encountered years ago).


Could not get update details

Failed to process request

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>
Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 49: ordinal not in range(128)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3590, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3587, in main
    backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 722, in dispatcher
    self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 582, in dispatch_command
    self.get_details(package_ids)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2546, in get_details
    self._show_details_pkg(pkg)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2572, in _show_details_pkg
    self.details(package_id, license, group, desc, url, size)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 303, in details
    PackageKitBaseBackend.details(self, package_id, package_license, group, desc, url, bytes)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 239, in details
    print("details\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$ld" $ (package_id, package_license, _to_utf8(group), _to_utf8(desc), url, bytes), file=sys.stdout)


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