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)
Reassigning to the right place..
Thanks for the bug report but this is a bug in packagekit yum backend. Please fill a bug against it in Fedora bug tracker. By this version I think this would be probably fixed, but if you can reproduce fill the bug there. Thanks.