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Bug #16838

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Technique with non ascii characters breaks migration from 5.0 to 6.0

Added by François ARMAND about 4 years ago. Updated almost 2 years ago.

Status:
Released
Priority:
N/A
Category:
Web - Technique editor
Target version:
Severity:
UX impact:
User visibility:
Effort required:
Priority:
0
Name check:
To do
Fix check:
Checked
Regression:

Description

The error manifests itself by:

- no technique anymore in the technique editor,
- error in /var/log/rudder/webapp/....stderr.log:

[2020-02-28 14:37:57+0100] ERROR bootchecks - An error occured while updating ncf techniques: Failure getting techniques from ncf api: code 500: {
  "error": [
    {
      "details": "Cause: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 6883: ordinal not in range(128)\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/usr/share/ncf/api/ncf_api_flask_app/views.py\", line 118, in get_techniques\n    techniques = ncf.get_all_techniques_metadata(True,migration)\n  File \"/usr/share/ncf/tools/ncf.py\", line 443, in get_all_techniques_metadata\n    method_calls = parse_technique_methods(file, methods)\n  File \"/usr/share/ncf/tools/ncf.py\", line 322, in parse_technique_methods\n    out = check_output([CFENGINE_PATH, \"-pjson\", \"-f\", technique_file], env=env)\n  File \"/usr/share/ncf/tools/ncf.py\", line 80, in check_output\n    output, error = process.communicate()\n  File \"/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py\", line 801, in communicate\n    stdout, stderr = self._communicate(input, endtime, timeout)\n  File \"/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py\", line 1485, in _communicate\n    self.stdout.encoding)\n  File \"/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py\", line 705, in _translate_newlines\n    data = data.decode(encoding)\nUnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 6883: ordinal not in range(128)\n",
      "message": "Unknown internal error during techniques fetching" 
    }
  ]
}

Workaround:
- edit /usr/share/ncf/tools/ncf.py line 79 and 80 with the patch in pull request,
- service apache2 restart
- touch /opt/rudder/etc/force_ncf_technique_update
- service rudder-jetty restart

Actions #1

Updated by François ARMAND about 4 years ago

  • Assignee changed from François ARMAND to Alexis Mousset
  • Pull Request set to https://github.com/Normation/ncf/pull/1148
Actions #2

Updated by François ARMAND about 4 years ago

  • Status changed from In progress to Pending release

Applied in changeset commit:f2bf1daf675226394306c39e6da8e8931ab451d6.

Actions #3

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 4 years ago

  • Fix check changed from To do to Checked
Actions #4

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 4 years ago

  • Subject changed from Technique with non ascii characters break migration from 5.0 to 6.0 to Technique with non ascii characters breaks migration from 5.0 to 6.0
Actions #5

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Pending release to Released

This bug has been fixed in Rudder 6.0.4 which was released today.

Actions #6

Updated by Alexis Mousset almost 2 years ago

  • Project changed from 41 to Rudder
  • Category changed from Technique editor - API to Web - Technique editor
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