Issue #22848 has been updated by Charles Olivier.
This issue seems to only affect the client side. Additionally, I found a quick fix, which works for me. I use KVM on Debian 7.2 with Puppet 3 and The Foreman. My VMs are a mix of Ubuntu and Debian boxes. I use PXE and preseed to install guests. I added the following to my /etc/default/puppet file in a post install script: ## export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 If you look in the puppet init.d script it sources the /etc/default/puppet file if it exists. Thus the export is executed and the LANG environment variable is set. I have tested with Ubuntu 13.10 and Debian 7.2 clients and i see no more red notifications in The Foreman. I hope this helps anyone also frustrated with the lack of answers... :-) ---------------------------------------- Bug #22848: Encoding mis-matches cause package prefetching to fail https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/22848#change-101384 * Author: Jos Backus * Status: Investigating * Priority: High * Assignee: * Category: ruby19 * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: 3.3.1 * Keywords: utf8 encoding package customer * Branch: ---------------------------------------- One of our RPM packages has some UTF-8 characters in its description, leading to an exception ("Error: Could not prefetch package provider 'yum': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII") in rpm.rb, causing no packages to be upgraded as the yumhelper.py invocation code raises that error. Priority=High because it breaks file { ensure => latest; }. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
