Description Peter Åstrand 2008-10-28 13:02:33 CET

From Issue 6844. It turns out that if a license file is expired, plus contains, say, swedish characters, the license module crashes:

2008-10-27 14:13:01 ERROR vsmserver: Unhandled exception:
exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in
position 994: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call
last):
  File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/async.py", line 110, in iii11
    obj . handle_read_event ( fd )
  File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/extproc.py", line 310, in
handle_read_event
    self . handle_close ( fd )
  File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/extproc.py", line 283, in
handle_close
    self . handle_exit ( )
  File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/extproc.py", line 506, in
handle_exit
    self . callback ( OooOo0ooo , self . stdout_data , self .
stderr_data )
  File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/licensehandler.py", line 379,
in openssl_done
    self . check_license_files ( )
  File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/licensehandler.py", line 319,
in check_license_files
    self . warn_admin ( )
  File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/licensehandler.py", line 229,
in warn_admin
    iiIii )
  File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/extproc.py", line 527, in
__init__
    self . input = locale_encode ( input )
  File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/ctccommon.py", line 463, in
locale_encode
    return s . encode ( OOooooO0Oo )
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
994: ordinal not in range(128)

2008-10-27 14:13:01 ERROR vsmserver: Killing process with pid 5652

Also verified with tl-show-licenses.