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Bug 1217610 - UnicodeDecodeError when entering encryption passphrase in language other than English on live install
Summary: UnicodeDecodeError when entering encryption passphrase in language other than...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1217504
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 22
Hardware: All
OS: All
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: AcceptedBlocker
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Blocks: F22FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-04-30 19:38 UTC by DO NOT USE account not monitored (old adamwill)
Modified: 2015-05-06 14:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-05-06 14:21:04 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1169019 0 unspecified CLOSED UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128) 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

Internal Links: 1169019

Description DO NOT USE account not monitored (old adamwill) 2015-04-30 19:38:17 UTC 
To reproduce: install in any language other than English (I tested with French but I think it affects all cases where translation kicks in) and choose to encrypt the install. Once the encryption passphrase dialog pops up, start typing. Cue crash. Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/lib/passphrase.py", line 171, in _checkStrength
    return ("dialog-error", _(ERROR_WEAK) % self._pwq_error)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/helpers.py", line 250, in update_check_status
    new_check_status = self._run_check(self)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/gui/helpers.py", line 42, in _update_check_status
    inputcheck.update_check_status()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 42: ordinal not in range(128)

This is related to the infamous https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169019 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209563 (fun with locales and encodings in the live environment).

Proposing as a Final blocker: "The installer must correctly display all sufficiently complete translations available for use." , https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_22_Final_Release_Criteria#Installer_translations (alternatively, any of the 'complete an install' criteria in the case that the install is live and in something other than English).
Comment 1 DO NOT USE account not monitored (old adamwill) 2015-04-30 20:40:08 UTC 
We've tested that this fixes it:

[adamw@adam anaconda (f22-branch %)]$ git diff
diff --git a/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/lib/passphrase.py b/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/lib/passphrase.py
index c104194..2f49fcd 100644
--- a/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/lib/passphrase.py
+++ b/pyanaconda/ui/gui/spokes/lib/passphrase.py
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ class PassphraseDialog(GUIObject, GUIInputCheckHandler):
 
     def _checkStrength(self, inputcheck):
         if self._pwq_error:
-            return ("dialog-error", _(ERROR_WEAK) % self._pwq_error)
+            return ("dialog-error", _(ERROR_WEAK).encode('utf-8') % self._pwq_error)
         else:
             return InputCheck.CHECK_OK
 

there are likely other cases, though. I would think that any time we use a %s substitution into a translated string and the translation has non-ASCII characters in it would fail, but that doesn't actually seem to be the case: I tested a few others (like "error = _("%s cannot be encrypted") % mountpoint" in custom.py and "return _(PASSWORD_WEAK_WITH_ERROR) % (self._pwq_error, done_msg)" in password.py) and they didn't cause crashes. IIRC there's some kind of wrinkle involved where Python *does* somehow know to use utf-8 in some cases but not others, but I'm not sure we ever fully traced that out.
Comment 2 DO NOT USE account not monitored (old adamwill) 2015-04-30 20:48:41 UTC 
See also https://bugs.python.org/issue9196 - apparently the behaviour of %s as it relates to unicode objects is...unclear (and I'm not sure why it fails in this case, given the information from that bug - perhaps something odd about pwquality.PWQError objects?)
Comment 3 Dan Mossor [danofsatx] 2015-05-04 16:39:40 UTC 
Discussed at the 2015-05-04 blocker review meeting.[0] Voted as AcceptedBlocker based on different criteria as cited in Comment #1.

AcceptedBlocker - violates "When using the guided partitioning flow, the installer must be able to:  ...  Complete an installation using any combination of disk configuration options it allows the user to select" for live, non-English installs

[0] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meetbot/fedora-blocker-review/2015-05-04/f22-blocker-review.2015-05-04-16.00.log.txt
Comment 4 David Shea 2015-05-06 14:21:04 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1217504 ***
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