Mark Litwintschik created AIRFLOW-6323:
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Summary: Non-ASCII comment in default airflow.cfg file causes
initdb to fail when using Python 2.7
Key: AIRFLOW-6323
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-6323
Project: Apache Airflow
Issue Type: Bug
Components: configuration
Affects Versions: 1.10.5
Reporter: Mark Litwintschik
Line 126 in the default configuration file has characters in a comment outside
of ASCII:
They appeared in this commit:
https://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/a44e5762c394b59566e757c9c20cb3f9fd7851eb
When running a vanilla install of Airflow and running the initdb command the
following failure will occur:
File
"/home/ubuntu/.airflow/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/backports/configparser/__init__.py",
line 1035, in _read
for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1):
File "/home/ubuntu/.airflow/lib/python2.7/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in
decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 1: ordinal
not in range(128)
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