TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

[Junbo Jiang]

2022-06-12 10:06:47.898 8226 ERROR networking_bagpipe.bagpipe_bgp.engine.exabgp_peer_worker.10-4-1-11 [-] Exception while generating message for route evpn:multicast::10
.4.1.96:0:0:10.4.1.96 extended-community [ target:64512:755 encap:VXLAN ] pmsi pmsi:ingressreplication:0:0(755):10.4.1.96: TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str insta
nce, bytes found
2022-06-12 10:06:47.898 8226 ERROR networking_bagpipe.bagpipe_bgp.engine.exabgp_peer_worker.10-4-1-11 Traceback (most recent call last):
2022-06-12 10:06:47.898 8226 ERROR networking_bagpipe.bagpipe_bgp.engine.exabgp_peer_worker.10-4-1-11 File "/opt/networking-bagpipe/networking_bagpipe/bagpipe_bgp/engi
ne/exabgp_peer_worker.py", line 372, in _update_for_route_event
2022-06-12 10:06:47.898 8226 ERROR networking_bagpipe.bagpipe_bgp.engine.exabgp_peer_worker.10-4-1-11 return ''.join(r.messages(self.protocol.negotiated))
2022-06-12 10:06:47.898 8226 ERROR networking_bagpipe.bagpipe_bgp.engine.exabgp_peer_worker.10-4-1-11 TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, bytes found
2022-06-12 10:06:47.898 8226 ERROR networking_bagpipe.bagpipe_bgp.engine.exabgp_peer_worker.10-4-1-11
2022-06-12 10:06:47.898 8226 DEBUG networking_bagpipe.bagpipe_bgp.engine.exabgp_peer_worker.10-4-1-11 [-] Sending 0 bytes on socket to peer 10.4.1.11 _send /opt/networki
ng-bagpipe/networking_bagpipe/bagpipe_bgp/engine/exabgp_peer_worker.py:357
2022-06-12 10:06:47.899 8226 ERROR networking_bagpipe.bagpipe_bgp.engine.exabgp_peer_worker.10-4-1-11 [-] Was not able to send data: TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/networking-bagpipe/+/845495

[Lajos Katona (lajos-katona)]

Thanks for the bug report. Could you please give some context how you reproduced the above stactrace? What kind of config you used, and things like that?

[Junbo Jiang (junbo)]

I use master branch, all configuration are just regular.

when you boot instance, the bagpipe-bgp process give the error.

here is the pip list output

Package Version Editable project location
---------------------------- ------------- -------------------------
alembic 1.8.0
amqp 5.1.1
aniso8601 9.0.1
appdirs 1.4.4
asgiref 3.5.2
attrs 21.4.0
automaton 2.5.0
autopage 0.5.1
Babel 2.10.1
bcrypt 3.2.2
beautifulsoup4 4.11.1
cachetools 5.2.0
castellan 3.11.0
certifi 2022.5.18.1
cffi 1.15.0
charset-normalizer 2.0.12
click 8.1.3
cliff 3.10.1
cmd2 2.4.1
cryptography 36.0.2
cursive 0.2.2
debtcollector 2.5.0
decorator 5.1.1
defusedxml 0.7.1
designate 14.1.0.dev60 /opt/designate
distlib 0.3.4
Django 3.2.13
django-appconf 1.0.5
django-compressor 2.4.1
django-debreach 2.1.0
django-pyscss 2.0.2
dnspython 2.2.1
dogpile.cache 1.1.5
edgegrid-python 1.2.1
elementpath 2.5.3
enmerkar 0.7.1
eventlet 0.33.1
exabgp 4.2.18
extras 1.0.0
fasteners 0.17.3
filelock 3.7.1
fixtures 3.0.0
Flask 2.1.2
Flask-RESTful 0.3.9
futurist 2.4.1
glance 25.0.0.dev61
glance-store 4.0.0
greenlet 1.1.2
horizon 22.1.0
httplib2 0.20.4
idna 3.3
importlib-metadata 4.11.4
importlib-resources 5.7.1
iso8601 1.0.2
itsdangerous 2.1.2
Jinja2 3.1.2
jmespath 1.0.0
jsonpatch 1.32
jsonpointer 2.3
jsonschema 3.2.0
keystone 21.1.0.dev19 /opt/keystone
keystoneauth1 4.6.0
keystonemiddleware 9.5.0
kombu 5.2.4
libvirt-python 8.4.0
logutils 0.3.5
lxml 4.9.0
Mako 1.2.0
MarkupSafe 2.1.1
microversion-parse 1.0.1
monasca-statsd 2.4.0
msgpack 1.0.3
munch 2.5.0
ndg-httpsclient 0.5.1
netaddr 0.8.0
netifaces 0.11.0
networking-bagpipe 16.1.0.dev9 /opt/networking-bagpipe
networking-bgpvpn 16.0.0
networking-sfc 14.0.0
networkx 2.8.2
neutro...

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/networking-bagpipe/+/845495
Committed: https://opendev.org/openstack/networking-bagpipe/commit/3679a5a60590022df10ea7438e197e89c72d6655
Submitter: "Zuul (22348)"
Branch: master

commit 3679a5a60590022df10ea7438e197e89c72d6655
Author: junbo <email address hidden>
Date: Sun Jun 12 10:19:05 2022 +0800

    Fix .join() issue for bytes type

    Closes-Bug: #1978391
    Change-Id: I1fc8f71429e6b3b3f350f1b25030807e05ae660b

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/networking-bagpipe 17.0.0.0rc1 release candidate.