Your message dated Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:58:58 +0000
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and subject line account creation weirdness with unicode usernames
has caused the Debian Bug report #688217,
regarding Failure to create username with UTF-8 symbol
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688217: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688217
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Package: wiki.debian.org
Severity: important
Tried to create a new user account with a UTF-8 character
(e.g. Flürble). This failed. Log excerpt:
mod_wsgi (pid=29720): Exception occurred processing WSGI script
'/srv/wiki.debian.org/bin/moin.wsgi'.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/werkzeug/wsgi.py", line 406, in __call__
return self.app(environ, start_response)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 282, in __call__
response = run(context)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 88, in run
response = dispatch(request, context, action_name)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 136, in dispatch
response = handle_action(context, pagename, action_name)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 195, in
handle_action
handler(context.page.page_name, context)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/action/newaccount.py", line 256,
in execute
request.theme.add_msg(_create_user(request), "dialog")
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MoinMoin/action/newaccount.py", line 140,
in _create_user
theuser.account_creation_host], shell=False, stdin=None,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1153, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
TypeError: execv() arg 2 must contain only strings
Looks like a bug in the interface to account creation checking. Sigh.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi!
This is somewhat moot/mitigated because we have now disabled account
creation entirely[1]. If the underlying problem is still present, it is
not exposed, and won't be fixed in MoinMoin anyway, but will hopefully
not be a problem post-Mediawiki migration.
Thus I'm closing this as part of triaging wiki.debian.org BTS bugs.
Thanks!
[1] "Account creation failed: Automatic account creation disabled to
stop spammers signing up. Please contact [email protected] and describe
what you want to do in the wiki. Please contact us in English, otherwise
we will have to pass your message to online translation services.."
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