Bug 227035

Version:           0.4.2 (using KDE 4.3.5)
OS:                Other
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Kpackagekit crashes after search dependences and prepare to start download and generate this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py", line 944, in _findPackage
self.yumbase.repos.populateSack(repo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 277, in populateSack
sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 164, in populate
if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 222, in _check_db_version
return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1222, in _check_db_version
repoXML = self.repoXML
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1386, in 
repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1378, in _getRepoXML
self._loadRepoXML(text=self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1368, in _loadRepoXML
return self._groupLoadRepoXML(text, ["primary"])
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1351, in _groupLoadRepoXML
if self._commonLoadRepoXML(text):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1192, in _commonLoadRepoXML
if self._latestRepoXML(local):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1170, in _latestRepoXML
repomd = self.metalink_data.repomd
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 699, in 
metalink_data = property(fget=lambda self: self._getMetalink(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 681, in _getMetalink
print "Could not get metalink $s error was \n$s" $(url, e)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/codecs.py", line 351, in write
data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 172: ordinal not in range(128)