Bug#374711: avahi-discover: discovery fails with unicode errors

[Norman Ramsey]

 > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:37:55PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote:
 > > Package: avahi-discover
 > > Version: 0.6.10-1
 > > Severity: important
 > > 
 > > I tried to run avahi-discover to find services on my new Mac OSX Tiger
 > > box. Unfortunately, the Mac seems to use unhappy Unicode characters in
 > > the description of services, resulting in these error messages (and the
 > > services not being seen).
 > > 
 > > A suggested fix would be to catch the exception and display raw UTF-8.
 > > 
 > >   : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10148 ; avahi-discover A new main_window has been
 > >   created Browsing domain 'local' on -1.-1 ... Browsing for services of
 > >   type '_sftp-ssh._tcp' in domain 'local' on 2.0 ... Browsing for
 > >   services of type '_ssh._tcp' in domain 'local' on 2.0 ... Browsing for
 > >   services of type '_workstation._tcp' in domain 'local' on 2.0 ...
 > >   Exception exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: <exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError
 > >   instance at 0xb70189cc> in
 > >   'dbus_bindings._GIL_safe_cmessage_function_handler' ignored Exception
 > >   exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: <exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError instance
 > >   at 0xb70186ec> in 'dbus_bindings._GIL_safe_cmessage_function_handler'
 > >   ignored Exception exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError:
 > >   <exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError instance at 0xb701862c> in
 > >   'dbus_bindings._GIL_safe_cmessage_function_handler' ignored Found
 > >   service 'curlycoat [00:13:d4:7e:fe:5b]' of type '_workstation._tcp' in
 > >   domain 'local' on 2.0.  : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10157 ;
 > 
 > Just talked to avahi upstream. The last avahi does validate if services are
 > valid UTF-8 (and dbus will kick you of the bus if it isn't anyway). So the
 > data avahi-discovery gets should be valid UTF-8..

According to xterm -u8, what I'm getting *is* valid UTF-8.

 > It would be interesting to see which service name causes this.  Could you
 > send the output of avahi-browse -a?

Attached.


Norman


+ ath0 IPv4 Norman Ramsey’s Computer                    SFTP File Transfer   
local
+ ath0 IPv4 Norman Ramsey’s Computer                    SSH Remote Terminal  
local
+ ath0 IPv4 Norman Ramsey’s Computer [00:16:cb:c9:96:db] Workstation          
local
+ ath0 IPv4 toller [00:0e:9b:29:74:de]                    Workstation          
local