UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0'

[Aidan Wong]

Hi,

This block is causing the error below.  If I remove that block of code, the state runs.  Any ideas?

 

/etc/sysconfig/lwes-journaller-java:

  file.managed:

    - source: salt://lwes-journaller-java/etc/sysconfig/lwes-journaller-java

    - user: t

    - group: roleusers

    - mode: 755

Error:

    The minion function caused an exception: Traceback (most recent call last):

      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/minion.py", line 796, in _thread_return

        return_data = func(*args, **kwargs)

      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/modules/state.py", line 275, in highstate

        force=kwargs.get('force', False)

      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/state.py", line 2502, in call_highstate

        high, errors = self.render_highstate(matches)

      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/state.py", line 2394, in render_highstate

        sls, saltenv, mods, matches)

      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/state.py", line 2140, in render_state

        self._handle_state_decls(state, sls, saltenv, errors)

      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/salt/state.py", line 2288, in _handle_state_decls

        'Name {0} in sls {1} is not a dictionary'.format(name, sls)

    UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[Etienne Pouliot]

My guess would that you have unsupported characters in you file salt://lwes-journaller-java/etc/sysconfig/lwes-journaller-java.

Try looking at it looking and removing all non english characters.

[Sam Lai]

Somewhere in that block of code there is an invisible unicode
non-breaking space (U+00A0 is http://graphemica.com/00A0). Try using
an editor that can show whitespace characters to find out where, or
just type it all out again. Don't copy because you could unwittingly
copy the non-breaking space character.

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[Aidan Wong]

Thanks guys.  I re-typed the block and it's working now.  I think it might be a space somewhere.


-/etc/sysconfig/lwes-journaller-java:
-  file.managed:
-    - source: salt://{{ APP_NAME }}/etc/sysconfig/lwes-journaller-java
-    - user: t
-    - group: roleusers
-    - mode: 755
-
+/etc/sysconfig/{{ APP_NAME }}:
+  file.managed:
+    - source: salt://{{ APP_NAME }}/etc/sysconfig/{{ APP_NAME }}
+    - user: t
+    - group: roleusers
+    - mode: 755

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