Cinder log : 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 301

[Brett Osteen]

Detailed bug description:

The cinder-api log constantly generating each minute the Traceback "'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 301: ordinal not in range(128)" Possibly points to UTF-8 encoding error

Steps to reproduce:

Using package webob.py https://github.com/Pylons/webob in Fuel 9.2 Mitaka Openstack

Expected results:
N/A

Actual results:

cinder-api.log
<155>Sep 5 07:19:32 node-12 cinder-api: 2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault [req-5ebdf1d3-d538-4d23-bf31-bee20c1f158a b090f16251484c77ac0247e27875d130 9edc23ebfccc43c69c11d3d9e2445a9d - - -] Caught error: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'> 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 301: ordinal not in range(128)
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault Traceback (most recent call last):
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cinder/api/middleware/fault.py", line 79, in __call__
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault return req.get_response(self.application)
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webob/request.py", line 1320, in send
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault application, catch_exc_info=False)
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webob/request.py", line 1284, in call_application
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault app_iter = application(self.environ, start_response)
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webob/dec.py", line 144, in __call__
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault return resp(environ, start_response)
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webob/dec.py", line 130, in __call__
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault resp = self.call_func(req, *args, **self.kwargs)
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webob/dec.py", line 195, in call_func
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder.api.middleware.fault return self.func(req, *args, **kwargs)
2019-09-05 07:19:32.303 128568 ERROR cinder

Impact

Potentially low.

Description of the environment:

Fuel 9.2 Mitaka

Additional information:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10406135/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xd1-in-position-2-ordinal

[Oleksiy Molchanov (omolchanov)]

Needs steps to reproduce, I have tried to create Volumes with different symbols, but there were no errors in logs.

root@node-2:~# apt list --installed | grep webob

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface yet. Use with caution in scripts.

python-webob/trusty,now 1.3.1-1 all [installed,automatic]
root@node-2:~# apt list --installed | grep cinder

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface yet. Use with caution in scripts.

cinder-api/mos9.0-updates,now 2:8.1.1-6~u14.04+mos34 all [installed]
cinder-backup/mos9.0-updates,now 2:8.1.1-6~u14.04+mos34 all [installed]
cinder-common/mos9.0-updates,now 2:8.1.1-6~u14.04+mos34 all [installed,automatic]
cinder-scheduler/mos9.0-updates,now 2:8.1.1-6~u14.04+mos34 all [installed]
cinder-volume/mos9.0-updates,now 2:8.1.1-6~u14.04+mos34 all [installed]
python-cinder/mos9.0-updates,now 2:8.1.1-6~u14.04+mos34 all [installed,automatic]
python-cinderclient/mos9.0-updates,now 1:1.6.0-3~u14.04+mos8 all [installed,automatic]