"UnicodeDecodeError" on today's smart update/upgrade/commit

[linux_learner]

Yes, you have a gpg key import problem. The package is reporting a key
of one value, and the site doesn't yet have the value. Check back
later.

On 1/10/07, snowcrash+smart <schneecrash+smart at gmail.com> wrote:
> i've smart,
>
>    0.49.1-40.guru.suse102 at i686
>
> installed on a number of opensuse 10.2 boxes.  no problems for quite awhile.
>
> today, on all the boxes, on attemtpting to commit an update/upgrade
> (which fails), i see
>
> smart> commit
>
> Upgrading packages (19):
>   MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.1-16.1 at i586
> sax2-8.1-83.2 at i586
>   MozillaThunderbird-1.99.1-44.1 at i586
> sax2-gui-8.1-83.2 at i586
>   cups-1.2.7-3.3 at i586
> sax2-ident-8.1-83.2 at i586
>   cups-client-1.2.7-3.3 at i586
> sax2-libsax-8.1-83.2 at i586
>   cups-devel-1.2.7-3.3 at i586
> sax2-libsax-perl-8.1-83.2 at i586
>   cups-libs-1.2.7-3.3 at i586
> sax2-tools-8.1-83.2 at i586
>   k3b-0.99.1.0rc4-100.pm.1 at i586
> w3m-0.5.1-41.2 at i586
>   krb5-1.5.1-23.2 at i586
> wine-snapshot-0.9.29.20070110-12.1 at i586
>   libetpan-0.49-0.pm.0 at i586
> yast2-sudo-2.14.3-0.1 at noarch
>   lvm2-2.02.13-10.2 at i586
>
> 43.7MB of package files are needed. 6.6MB will be freed.
>
> Confirm changes? (Y/n): y
>
>
> Committing transaction...
> warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID f9558872
> Trying to import the key bfb4e362f9558872 from subkeys.pgp.net...
> gpg: requesting key F9558872 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
> gpg: key F9558872: "Marcus Huewe (RPM signing key)
> <marcus at links2linux.de>" not changed
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:              unchanged: 1
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/smart", line 194, in <module>
>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/bin/smart", line 167, in main
>     exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/interfaces/text/interactive.py",
> line 46, in run
>     Interpreter(self._ctrl).cmdloop()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/cmd.py", line 142, in cmdloop
>     stop = self.onecmd(line)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/interfaces/text/interactive.py",
> line 195, in onecmd
>     return Cmd.onecmd(self, line)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/cmd.py", line 219, in onecmd
>     return func(arg)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/interfaces/text/interactive.py",
> line 516, in do_commit
>     if self._ctrl.commitTransaction(transaction):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 502,
> in commitTransaction
>     return self.commitChangeSet(trans.getChangeSet(), caching, confirm)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 560,
> in commitChangeSet
>     pmclass().commit(pmcs, pkgpaths)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/pm.py",
> line 202, in commit
>     if iface.askYesNo(popen_out, False):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/smart/interfaces/text/interface.py",
> line 65, in askYesNo
>     res = raw_input(mask % question).strip().lower()
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
> 432: ordinal not in range(128)
>
>
> note quite sure what to do about that.  it _looks_ like a problem
> with, or getting, a key?
>
> suggestions?
>
> thanks.
>