Bug 55041 – App-Update UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte in position x : invalid start byte

Bug 55041 - App-Update UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte in position x : invalid start byte


Summary:	App-Update UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte in position x :...

Status:	NEW

Product:	UCS
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Update - univention-updater
Version:	UCS 5.0
Hardware:	amd64 Linux

Importance:	P5 normal (vote)
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Assigned To:	UCS maintainers
QA Contact:	UCS maintainers

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Reported:	2022-07-28 20:29 CEST by Erich
Modified:	2022-07-28 20:34 CEST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Erich 2022-07-28 20:29:48 CEST

Similar to Bug 51290, only this exists in 5.1 versus 4.4.

When running univention-upgrade from shell, error is thrown when 'Checking for app updates:' is invoked.

This OS instance has been upgraded from 4.4-9.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/updater/scripts/upgrade.py", line 436, in do_update
    update_available = performUpdate(options, checkForUpdates=options.check, silent=False)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/updater/scripts/upgrade.py", line 139, in performUpdate
    if func(options, checkForUpdates, silent):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/updater/scripts/upgrade.py", line 271, in do_app_updates
    app_upgrade_search.call()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/appcenter/actions/__init__.py", line 186, in call
    return obj.call_with_namespace(namespace)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/appcenter/actions/__init__.py", line 193, in call_with_namespace
    result = self.main(namespace)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/appcenter/actions/upgrade_search.py", line 52, in main
    get_action('update').call()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/appcenter/actions/__init__.py", line 186, in call
    return obj.call_with_namespace(namespace)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/appcenter/actions/__init__.py", line 193, in call_with_namespace
    result = self.main(namespace)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/appcenter/actions/update.py", line 81, in main
    if self._download_supra_files(appcenter_cache):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/appcenter/actions/update.py", line 150, in _download_supra_files
    return self._download_files(appcenter_cache, ['app-categories.ini', 'rating.ini', 'license_types.ini', 'ucs.ini', 'suggestions.json'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/appcenter/actions/update.py", line 158, in _download_files
    present_etags = self._get_etags(etags_file)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/univention/appcenter/actions/update.py", line 130, in _get_etags
    for line in f:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 150: invalid start byte

Comment 1 Erich 2022-07-28 20:33:39 CEST

Update: version of 5.1 is incorrect.

Occurring in version 5.0-1.

Comment 2 Erich 2022-07-28 20:34:48 CEST

Update: version of 5.1 is incorrect.

Occurring in version 5.0-1.