UnicodeDecodeError by using dnf

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/30/2015 10:11 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Everytime that I use dnf it outputs this message:
>
> ````
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/bin/dnf", line 36, in <module>
>     main.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 198, in user_main
>     errcode = main(args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 84, in main
>     return _main(base, args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 117, in _main
>     cli.configure(map(ucd, args))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 1007, in configure
>     self.optparser.usage = self.optparser.get_usage()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/option_parser.py", line 273, in get_usage
>     usage += "%-25s %s\n" % (name, summary)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 40: ordinal not in range(128)
> ````
>
> I use `alias dnf='LANG=C dnf'` as a work around. Anyway I'd want to know if I'm doing something wrong or it's a bug.

A quick google search indicates it is a bug in python's UTF8 support and that it has been reported.  The current workaround is the same as you've discovered.

>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Information about my system:
>
> # uname -r
> 4.1.7-200.fc22.x86_64
> # rpm -q dnf
> dnf-1.1.1-2.fc22.noarch
> # locale
> LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_AR.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
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> Sergio Belkin
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>
>


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