Traceback at end of testing, impossible to get results file

[Jeff Lane ]

I have a fresh install of 14.04 on a server:

root@x10dru:~# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"
root@x10dru:~# uname -r
3.13.0-66-generic

with these packages:
checkbox-ng 0.21~ppa~ubuntu14.04.1
python3-checkbox-ng 0.21~ppa~ubuntu14.04.1
python3-checkbox-support 0.21~ppa~ubuntu14.04.1
plainbox-insecure-policy 0.23+ppa~ubuntu14.04.1
plainbox-provider-certification-server 0.19-1
plainbox-provider-checkbox 0.22~ppa1~ubuntu14.04.1
plainbox-provider-resource-generic 0.20+ppa~ubuntu14.04.1
python3-plainbox 0.23+ppa~ubuntu14.04.1

And I just did a full server cert run. At the end of the tesing, I hit "Finish" to finish the run and get a traceback. Because of this, I am unable to see any test results, nor do I get any output files (submission.xml) and can't submit the test results. So I've wasted an afternoon waiting on results I cant see.

Here's the traceback:

[ESC[34mESC[1mrncESC[0m]: CRITICAL plainbox.crashes: Executable 'checkbox-launcher' invoked with Namespace(color=None, command=<checkbox_ng.commands.launcher.LauncherCommand object at 0x7fbf194b0e80>, debug_console=False, debug_interrupt=False, dont_suppress_output=False, dry_run=False, exclude_pattern_list=[], include_pattern_list=[], launcher='/usr/bin/canonical-certification-server', log_level=None, non_interactive=False, pdb=False, secure_id=None, test_plan=None, trace=[], url=None, whitelist=[]) has crashed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/clitools.py", line 560, in dispatch_and_catch_exceptions
    return self.dispatch_command(ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/clitools.py", line 556, in dispatch_command
    return ns.command.invoked(ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/checkbox_ng/commands/launcher.py", line 91, in invoked
    ).run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/checkbox_ng/commands/newcli.py", line 149, in run
    return self.do_normal_sequence()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/checkbox_ng/commands/newcli.py", line 211, in do_normal_sequence
    self.export_and_send_results()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/checkbox_ng/commands/newcli.py", line 338, in export_and_send_results
    copyfileobj(exported_stream, translating_stream)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/shutil.py", line 69, in copyfileobj
    fdst.write(buf)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/exporter/__init__.py", line 383, in write
    return self.dest_stream.write(data.decode(self.encoding))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u2611' in position 8: ordinal not in range(256)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/checkbox-launcher", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('checkbox-ng==0.21', 'console_scripts', 'checkbox-launcher')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/checkbox_ng/main.py", line 62, in launcher
    raise SystemExit(CheckboxLauncherTool().main(argv))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/clitools.py", line 324, in main
    return self.dispatch_and_catch_exceptions(ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/clitools.py", line 560, in dispatch_and_catch_exceptions
    return self.dispatch_command(ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/clitools.py", line 556, in dispatch_command
    return ns.command.invoked(ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/checkbox_ng/commands/launcher.py", line 91, in invoked
    ).run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/checkbox_ng/commands/newcli.py", line 149, in run
    return self.do_normal_sequence()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/checkbox_ng/commands/newcli.py", line 211, in do_normal_sequence
    self.export_and_send_results()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/checkbox_ng/commands/newcli.py", line 338, in export_and_send_results
    copyfileobj(exported_stream, translating_stream)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/shutil.py", line 69, in copyfileobj
    fdst.write(buf)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/plainbox/impl/exporter/__init__.py", line 383, in write
    return self.dest_stream.write(data.decode(self.encoding))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u2611' in position 8: ordinal not in range(256)

[Maciej Kisielewski (kissiel)]

I got the same effect on the version from trunk when manually set locale to only include lang (en_US).

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Per a suggestion from Maciej, setting LANG to en_US.utf8 works (at least I can complete the run and submit results)... howver I also noticed that the CLI interface is changed, '*' apparently are not '*' in that locale...

See attached screen shot for an example of what happens to the CLI interface after changing LANG