Bug when listing installed packages in yum

[kaelthas]

When I try to run a "yum -y info installed" it lists some packages, then when it's in the Bs alphabetically it gives this error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 266, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 164, in doCommand
base.listPkgs(ypl.installed, 'Installed Packages', basecmd)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 102, in listPkgs
self.infoOutput(pkg)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 73, in infoOutput
print _("Description:\n%s") % pkg.description.encode("UTF-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 350: ordinal not in range(128)

Anyone heard of this and fixed it? I'm using Fedora 7 with the latest updates. It's preventing me from using kyum which is far preferred over the inconvenient pirut app.

[SlowJet]

The packages need to be qualified (except for the list all)
Thecommand format is
# yum list installed foo bar* ...
which would list installed package foo and any starting with bar

But it does appear that the yum.py can't handle invalid options and command structures.
# yum info all > yumlist.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 266, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 164, in doCommand
base.listPkgs(ypl.installed, 'Installed Packages', basecmd)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 102, in listPkgs
self.infoOutput(pkg)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 73, in infoOutput
print _("Description:\n%s") % pkg.description.encode("UTF-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 49: ordinal not in range(128)

SJ

[kaelthas]

Originally Posted by SlowJet

The packages need to be qualified (except for the list all)
Thecommand format is
# yum list installed foo bar* ...
which would list installed package foo and any starting with bar

But it does appear that the yum.py can't handle invalid options and command structures.
# yum info all > yumlist.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 266, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 164, in doCommand
base.listPkgs(ypl.installed, 'Installed Packages', basecmd)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 102, in listPkgs
self.infoOutput(pkg)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 73, in infoOutput
print _("Description:\n%s") % pkg.description.encode("UTF-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 49: ordinal not in range(128)

SJ

Yes, if I limit the search to certain packages it seems to work ok. Problem is, that doesn't do kyum any good when it's trying to list installed packages for me.

[SlowJet]

Are you running fc6 or f7?
kyum was still an fc6 package in f7 gold so
yum update kyum
and then try kyum again

SJ

[kaelthas]

Originally Posted by SlowJet

Are you running fc6 or f7?
kyum was still an fc6 package in f7 gold so
yum update kyum
and then try kyum again

SJ

I tried, and it says it's already up to date. I suppose I should start looking for where to put the bug report.

[papitopaul]

I get this same error doing

yum info >yuminfo.txt

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 75: ordinal not in range(128)

tail yuminfo.txt

Name   : cups
Arch   : i386
Epoch  : 1
Version: 1.2.12
Release: 1.fc7
Size   : 8.6 M
Repo   : installed
Summary: Common Unix Printing System

Doing some research on this, it seems that this error is thrown to indicate a problem with an entry in a database, rather than just ignoring that there is a problem.

Unreported problems are handled as if they never occurred. Anybody know who/where to report a DB entry problem to? Or do we just wait until "cups" is updated again?