glsa-check --list fails with the error message show below after syncing the gentoo repository today (rsync'ed at >>> Fri May 26 13:35:20 2017). This bug maybe related to bug Bug 619732. However, I get a different stacktrace, which might be caused by different python versions. -------- Stacktrace of Crash -------- $ glsa-check -l Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/glsa-check", line 181, in <module> myglsa = Glsa(x, glsaconfig) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gentoolkit/glsa/__init__.py", line 509, in __init__ self.read() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gentoolkit/glsa/__init__.py", line 527, in read self.parse(urlopen(myurl)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gentoolkit/glsa/__init__.py", line 612, in parse tmp["vul_atoms"] = [makeAtom(name, v) for v in p.getElementsByTagName("vulnerable")] File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gentoolkit/glsa/__init__.py", line 303, in makeAtom return str(rValue) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2008' in position 24: ordinal not in range(128) -------- emerge --info -------- $ emerge --info Portage 2.3.5 (python 2.7.12-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma/systemd, gcc-5.4.0, glibc-2.23-r3, 4.9.16-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.9.16-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4810MQ_CPU_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.3 KiB Mem: 16395616 total, 119820 free KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16773052 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 26 May 2017 11:14:40 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p48-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.26.1 p1.0) 2.26.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p48-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.24.1-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.12::gentoo, 3.4.5::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.7.2::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.3::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.26.2::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r3::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.15-r2::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.26.1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 5.4.0-r3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r3::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.4::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.23-r3::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git priority: -1000 local location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo priority: 5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.3/conf /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/zz_autounmask /etc/portage/package.unmask/zz_autounmask /etc/portage/package.use/zz_autounmask /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y --autounmask-write --autounmask-continue --jobs=3 --load-average=3.0" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs compressdebug config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch parallel-install preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aes alsa amd64 avx avx2 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdda cddb cdio cdr cli cracklib crypt cryptsetup cups cxx dbus declarative dri dri3 dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fma3 fortran gdbm gif glamor gpg gpm gtk iconv icu id3tag imagemagic inotify ipv4 ipv6 jepg2k jpeg kde kipi kwallet lame lcms ldap libnotify libsamplerate lzma mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp multilib ncurses networkmanager nls nptl ntp ogg opengl openmp openvpn otr pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma pm-utils png policykit popcnt ppds pulseaudio qemu qml qt3support qt4 qt5 quicktime rar readline real rss sdl seccomp semantic-desktop session spell spice sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg systemd taglib tcpd threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l v4l2 vaapi vcd vim-syntax vorbis wavpack widgets wifi wma wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" L10N="de en en-US en-GB" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en en_US en_GB" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_4" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby21 ruby22" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel nouveau modesetting" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --sync 2. glsa-check --list
after upgrading to gentoolkit-0.4.0 i get a stack trace matching the stacktrace of bug Bug 619732. # glsa-check -l Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.4/glsa-check", line 186, in <module> if myglsa.isVulnerable(): File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/gentoolkit/glsa/__init__.py", line 683, in isVulnerable or (None != getMinUpgrade([v,], path["unaff_atoms"])) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/gentoolkit/glsa/__init__.py", line 410, in getMinUpgrade v_installed = reduce(operator.add, [match(v, "vartree") for v in vulnerableList], []) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/gentoolkit/glsa/__init__.py", line 410, in <listcomp> v_installed = reduce(operator.add, [match(v, "vartree") for v in vulnerableList], []) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/gentoolkit/glsa/__init__.py", line 347, in match return db.match(atom) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 574, in match origdep, mydb=self, use_cache=use_cache, settings=self.settings) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/portage/dbapi/dep_expand.py", line 35, in dep_expand mydep = Atom(mydep, allow_repo=True) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/portage/dep/__init__.py", line 1270, in __init__ raise InvalidAtom(self) portage.exception.InvalidAtom: <net-misc/smb4k-1.2.3-r1
I was able to reproduce the UnicodeEncodeError with Python 2.7. However, this is exactly the same error like bug 619732. Once GLSA 201705-14 was fixed, the error was gone. So closing as duplicate... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 619732 ***