I believe, you are between here: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/locales/ and here: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/631#issuecomment-18458965
Default setting of LC_ALL could be a huge part of the answer (if things break as such, the build process is broken), yet I now recall other variables which may affect builds, such as DISPLAY or _JAVA_OPTIONS (MatLab, I’m looking at you). F. On Jan 24, 2017, at 8:37 PM, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 24/01/2017 16:31, Robert Schmidt wrote: >> I'm wrong about the encoding stuff. Maybe Kenneth can respond. There must be >> a different type of string in the list. I'll look around in the code to see >> if there is a standard way of handling it... > > These kind of bugs can be tricky to fix, but clearly some part of the test > report has some non-ASCII characters in it, and this isn't being processed > well... > > Rob: are you able to reproduce the issue? That's certainly step 1. > > It should be possible to fix the problem with a change like this: > > return '\n'.join([x . decode('utf8', 'replace') for x in test_report]) > > Maxime, can you check whether that fixes the issue? > > But it would be good to pinpoint the exact problem, i.e. the source of the > non-ASCII characters... > > > K. > >> >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:25 AM Robert Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do you really need to upload the test report? If you need to share something >> just gist the build log. >> >> It is also clearly a bug and not too difficult to fix. I think you can just >> add a u to the beginning of '\n' >> >> so u'\n'.join(test_report) >> >> there must be a non-ascii string somewhere in there. Not sure where exactly, >> but by default it would be smarter to handle these strings as unicode anyway. >> >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:14 AM Maxime Boissonneault >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Even when a build is successful, if my LANG is set to fr_CA.UTF-8, >> Python fails with what appears to be a decoding error of some accent : >> >> >> == Results of the build can be found in the log file(s) >> /tmp/eb-_h4iDk/easybuild-Python-3.5.2-20170124.151206.yDGdP.log >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File >> "/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/nix/store/rb2iq6l2a3hfli482jcjd4i2rls7lgqn-python-2.7.13/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", >> line 174, in _run_module_as_main >> "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name) >> File >> "/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/nix/store/rb2iq6l2a3hfli482jcjd4i2rls7lgqn-python-2.7.13/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", >> line 72, in _run_code >> exec code in run_globals >> File >> "/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild-framework/easybuild/main.py", >> line 443, in <module> >> main() >> File >> "/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild-framework/easybuild/main.py", >> line 412, in main >> ecs_with_res = build_and_install_software(ordered_ecs, >> init_session_state, exit_on_failure=exit_on_failure) >> File >> "/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild-framework/easybuild/main.py", >> line 134, in build_and_install_software >> test_report_txt = create_test_report(test_msg, [(ec, ec_res)], >> init_session_state) >> File >> "/cvmfs/soft.computecanada.ca/easybuild/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild-framework/easybuild/tools/testing.py", >> line 231, in create_test_report >> return '\n'.join(test_report) >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position >> 364: ordinal not in range(128) >> >> >> >> Any idea how to fix this ? As a workaround, I'm setting LANG=en. >> >> >> -- >> --------------------------------- >> Maxime Boissonneault >> Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval >> Président - Comité de coordination du soutien à la recherche de Calcul Québec >> Team lead - Research Support National Team, Compute Canada >> Instructeur Software Carpentry >> Ph. D. en physique >> > cheers, Fotis -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum
