The Debian builds of Open vSwitch have suffered mysterious (to me)
errors for some time, e.g.:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=openvswitch&arch=amd64&ver=1.9.3%2Bgit20131021-1&stamp=1382373784&file=log
The root of these problems seems to be in filename encoding. The Debian
buildds appear to build in directories named with gratuitous UTF-8, such
as:
/??BUILDDIR??/openvswitch-1.9.3+git20131021/python/ovs/util.py
When I try "make check" in a directory with a similar name on my own
system, I get pretty clear encoding-related failures in the same tests,
e.g.:
../../tests/unixctl-py.at:10: $PYTHON $srcdir/appctl.py --timeout 20 -t
ovs-vswitchd exit
--- /dev/null 2013-07-07 19:52:44.697519595 -0700
+++
/home/blp/nicira/??ovs??/_build/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/370/stderr
2013-10-21 09:59:11.000000000 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+ File "../../../../tests/appctl.py", line 75, in <module>
+ main()
+ File "../../../../tests/appctl.py", line 60, in main
+ err_no, error, result = client.transact(args.command, args.argv)
+ File "/home/blp/nicira/??ovs??/python/ovs/unixctl/client.py", line 41,
in transact
+ error, reply = self._conn.transact_block(request)
+ File "/home/blp/nicira/??ovs??/python/ovs/jsonrpc.py", line 306, in
transact_block
+ error = self.send(request)
+ File "/home/blp/nicira/??ovs??/python/ovs/jsonrpc.py", line 235, in send
+ self.__log_msg("send", msg)
+ File "/home/blp/nicira/??ovs??/python/ovs/jsonrpc.py", line 229, in
__log_msg
+ vlog.dbg("%s: %s %s" % (self.name, title, msg))
+UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 22:
ordinal not in range(128)
However I can't figure out the root cause of these problems. In simple
tests with Python I don't get similar errors (note that the tests set
LC_ALL=C):
blp@blp:~/nicira/??ovs??/_build(0)$ LC_ALL=C python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 16:53:07)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> 'prefix %s postfix' % os.getcwd()
'prefix /home/blp/nicira/\xc2\xabovs\xc2\xbb/_build postfix'
>>> print 'prefix %s postfix' % os.getcwd()
prefix /home/blp/nicira/??ovs??/_build postfix
>>>
So I'm pretty puzzled. Can anyone help me out?
Thanks,
Ben.
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