On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:48:42AM +0000, mrpa...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Michael,
Hi Frank,
> Thanks for looking into the issue. I'm getting almost the exact same error
> message. It started a few weeks ago. The issue is reproducible whether I run
> unattended-upgrades from the shell or from cron.
Thanks a lot for helping me to track down this issue! Great to have
someone who can reproduce the issue, I really want to track down this
issue so its awsome to have you to help and answer all my questions :)
> File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 815, in send_summary_mail
> host(), res)
> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'bytes' and 'tuple'
> This statement is causing the error on my system:
>
> subject = _("unattended-upgrades result for '%s': '%s'") % (host(), res)
>
> res argument is 'None'. host() is a string. type(_("unattended-upgrades
> result for '%s': '%s'")) is <class 'bytes'>. Shouldn't this be
> string?
This smeels like a clue:
type(_("unattended-upgrades result for '%s': '%s'")
should indeed be "str" instead of bytes.
What version of unattended-upgrades do you have?
$ apt list unattended-upgrades
will tell you.
Do you have in the unattended-upgrades binary the lines:
"""
from gettext import lgettext as _
"""
> My
> locale is de_DE.UTF-8. gettext on the shell does return a translation:
>
> # gettext unattended-upgrades "unattended-upgrades result for '%s':
> '%s'"
> Unattended-Upgrades-Ergebnis für »%s«: %s
>
> If I change the message to be translated, unattended-upgrades continues, but
> complains about another _(...) message further down.
>
> Now I'm lost. Any help is greatly appreciated.
What is the output of "locale"?
Thanks,
Michael
