Now I'm really confused... I use emacs and vi exclusively and neither of those should be US-ASCII. This leads me to wonder which file. Is it the provider itself or ???
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Ayers, Mike <mike_ay...@cable.comcast.com>wrote: > > From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet- > > us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Berghold > > > What does "Could not prefetch package provider 'apt': invalid byte > > sequence in US-ASCII" mean exactly? This started showing up in the logs > > of some of my servers... > > If a file is being interpreted as US-ASCII, then it is expected to > have no characters with the high bit set. If you edited any source files > with an Unicode editor, it may have changed some of your punctuatiuon to > fancy Unicode versions of that punctuation (e.g. a pair of quotes to "left > quote" and "right quote"), which the interpreter would not understand. > > Blind stab: If you save a file as type "UTF-8" on Windows, a BOM > will be inserted as the first character in the file. Make sure you save as > ASCII. > > > HTH, > > Mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Peter L. Berghold salty.cowd...@gmail.com http://blog.berghold.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
