Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError

[mgsaranraj87]

Hi Team,
I'm not a ruby program and I feel cvmanager will solve most of my requirement.
I'm sure this issue has reported in GitHub for different scenarios. I'm trying to use cvmanager for Redhat satellite 6 and Foreman. I'm getting the below error while running the script.

Can you please help me to fix the issue.

ruby cvmanager --wait publish --verbose
/usr/share/gems/gems/json-1.7.7/lib/json/common.rb:155:in encode': "\xE2" on US-ASCII (Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError) from /usr/share/gems/gems/json-1.7.7/lib/json/common.rb:155:in initialize'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/json-1.7.7/lib/json/common.rb:155:in new' from /usr/share/gems/gems/json-1.7.7/lib/json/common.rb:155:in parse'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/apipie-bindings-0.2.0/lib/apipie_bindings/api.rb:129:in load_apidoc' from /usr/share/gems/gems/apipie-bindings-0.2.0/lib/apipie_bindings/api.rb:138:in apidoc'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/apipie-bindings-0.2.0/lib/apipie_bindings/resource.rb:8:in initialize' from /usr/share/gems/gems/apipie-bindings-0.2.0/lib/apipie_bindings/api.rb:151:in new'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/apipie-bindings-0.2.0/lib/apipie_bindings/api.rb:151:in resource' from cvmanager:375:in publish'
from cvmanager:541:in `

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[Rocco83]

Hi,

What if you run
file cvmanager
?
What about the same to your config file?
Can you post also your config (please cleanup password and sensitive information from it)

Seems to me an issue with the encoding of one of this files.

[edtepes]

I am having this same exact issue right now as well. It was working a few days ago and now I cannot call any ./cvmanager --config=...etc... commands at all. Same exact error message as the original poster of this issue.

file cvmanager returns:
cvmanager: Ruby script, ASCII text

file publish.yml returns:
publish.yml: ASCII text

my cvmanager.yaml cv looks like

---
:settings:
  :user: admin
  :pass: **************
  :uri: https://servername.com
  :timeout: 300
  :org: 1
  :lifecycle: 1
  :keep: 3
:cv:

:ccv:

and for another example my nonprod_rhel5.yaml looks like:

---
:settings:
  :user: admin
  :pass: ************
  :uri: https://servername.com
  :timeout: 300
  :org: 1
  :lifecycle: 5
  :keep: 1
  :promote_cvs: true
  :checkrepos: false
:cv:
  RHEL_5: latest
:promote:
  - RHEL_5

I had a python script calling these cvmanager commands by calling the subprocess module like this:

if instruction == "clean":
                proc = subprocess.Popen(['./cvmanager', 'clean', '--keep', '3'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)

This worked on Friday, now its Monday and when I went to check that my Content Views were updated over the weekend, nothing had happened. and during even the most basic testing I began to get these errors.

EDIT:
Fixed the issue by running the following two lines in bash. I found them in a github issue from another product about a similar error message as mine. Any idea why these would need setting all of a sudden?
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US:en