Bug 131188 – layout_test_runner: UnicodeDecodeError(''ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 344: ordinal not in range(128)')

• Component: Tools / Tests
• Status: NEW

[Joseph Pecoraro]

I occasionally see this error on build bots:

    worker/5: UnicodeDecodeError(''ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 344: ordinal not in range(128)') raised:
        File ".../OpenSource/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/common/message_pool.py", line 255, in run
          worker.handle(message.name, message.src, *message.args)

Can we just avoid ascii here? Or at least prevent the exception?

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/16518583>

[Joseph Pecoraro]

More details in the radar.

[Joseph Pecoraro]

Windows bot just hit this:
<http://build.webkit.org/builders/Apple%20Win%20Debug%20%28Build%29/builds/77916/steps/svn/logs/stdio>

    starting svn operation
    /usr/bin/svn update --non-interactive --no-auth-cache --revision 166758
     in dir /home/buildbot/slave/win-debug/build (timeout 1200 secs)
     watching logfiles {}
     argv: ['/usr/bin/svn', 'update', '--non-interactive', '--no-auth-cache', '--revision', '166758']
    error in RunProcess._startCommand
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/buildbot_slave-0.8.7p1-py2.6.egg/buildslave/runprocess.py", line 386, in start
        self._startCommand()
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/buildbot_slave-0.8.7p1-py2.6.egg/buildslave/runprocess.py", line 483, in _startCommand
        msg += "  %s=%s\n" % (name, self.environ[name])
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 129: ordinal not in range(128)

[Brent Fulgham]

This is probably due to: http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/2385