[solved] virt-manager: utf-8 codec can't decode byte

[taskman]

Hi,

I am quite new with gentoo and have a problem getting virt-manager to run properly.
Concrete:

when I run

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sudo virt-manager --debug

there are many errors popping.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvol.py", line 300, in validate
    self.vol.validate()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/storage.py", line 690, in validate
    self.validate_name(self.pool, self.name)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/storage.py", line 602, in validate_name
    pool.storageVolLookupByName(name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3344, in storageVolLookupByName
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virStorageVolLookupByName() failed', pool=self)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 37, in __init__
    err = libvirtmod.virGetLastError()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 16: invalid continuation byte

(virt-manager:10617): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:22:33.714: Failed to set text 'Datentr\xe4ger l\xf6schen' from markup due to error parsing markup: Fehler in Zeile 1, Zeichen 28: Ungültiger UTF-8-kodierter Text im Namen - »Datentr\xe4ger l\xf6schen« ist nicht gültig

(virt-manager:10617): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:22:33.714: Failed to set text 'Datentr\xe4ger l\xf6schen' from markup due to error parsing markup: Fehler in Zeile 1, Zeichen 28: Ungültiger UTF-8-kodierter Text im Namen - »Datentr\xe4ger l\xf6schen« ist nicht gültig

(virt-manager:10617): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:22:33.724: Failed to set text 'Datentr\xe4ger l\xf6schen' from markup due to error parsing markup: Fehler in Zeile 1, Zeichen 28: Ungültiger UTF-8-kodierter Text im Namen - »Datentr\xe4ger l\xf6schen« ist nicht gültig

(virt-manager:10617): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:22:33.738: Failed to set text 'Datentr\xe4ger l\xf6schen' from markup due to error parsing markup: Fehler in Zeile 1, Zeichen 28: Ungültiger UTF-8-kodierter Text im Namen - »Datentr\xe4ger l\xf6schen« ist nicht gültig

Most of the translated text I cant read cause of misleading Umlaut.
And every time I try to create/load an image I get the following error ...

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UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 16: invalid continuation byte

None other tool has this error, but to be honest I haven't tested kvm/qemu without virt-manager and I don't know how to do that.

Here is a picture of what it looks like ...
https://photos.google.com/search/_tra_/ ... UVCU1eS0oM


Some additional info ...

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mm@mypc ~ $ locale -a
C
POSIX
de_DE
de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.iso885915@euro
de_DE@euro
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8

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mm@mypc ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale 
LANG="de_DE.iso885915@euro"
LC_COLLATE="C"

I think it has some to do with python or portage.

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mm@mypc ~ $ python -V -V
Python 3.6.6 (default, Dec 12 2018, 20:18:07) 
[GCC 8.2.0]

mm@mypc ~ $ emerge --version
Portage 2.3.52 (python 2.7.15-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib, gcc-8.2.0, glibc-2.28-r2, 4.14.33-FC.01 x86_64)

I am using bliss-kernel ...

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mm@mypc ~ $ uname -a
Linux mypc 4.14.33-FC.01 #2 SMP Mon Apr 9 10:36:59 EDT 2018 x86_64 AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Addition:

When I change locales every thing works flawless.

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mm@mypc ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale 
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="C"

This will set the howl system to english, but I don't want that cause of virt-manager only.

Need halp!

[taskman]

I solved this problem by add de_DE.UTF-8 to my settings and used it as default.

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# echo "de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
# locale.gen
# cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"