<div dir="auto">Cerbero was recently converted to python 3 from python 2. Python 3 uses a different string encoding standard (utf8 I think) and errors like this often appear when something was missed during the conversion process.<div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto">You might try debugging with pycharm to patch the offending line of code.</div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 1:27 AM Matthew Thyer <<a href="mailto:matthew.thyer@adelaide.edu.au">matthew.thyer@adelaide.edu.au</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div lang="EN-AU" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"> <div class="m_-3095132239368283283WordSection1"> Greetings gstreamer-devel list, I’m wishing to build and package GStreamer v1.14 (or later) for the ARM32 hard-float architecture (for Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3B+). I mean the GNU Triplet: arm-linux-gnueabihf. As you may have seen from my last two emails (“Failure to cross compile GStreamer v1.14 with config/cross-lin-arm.cbc” & “How to cross compile GStreamer for Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3B+ (arch=armhf)?”) I’m not currently able to cross compile for this outcome so I have instead setup docker on my Raspberry Pi 3 and run a native build. This completes normally but then fails to package the results of the build. It looks like cerbero tries to fall back to some kind of default packager but then crashes and I get a python traceback. The error messages from the failure are: WARNING: No specific packager available for the distro version ubuntu_16_04_xenial, using generic packager for distro debian WARNING: No packager defined, using default packager "Default <<a href="mailto:default@change.me" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">default@change.me</a>>" Traceback (most recent call last): File "./cerbero-uninstalled", line 9, in <module> main() File "./cerbero/main.py", line 130, in main Main(sys.argv[1:]) File "./cerbero/main.py", line 55, in __init__ self.run_command() File "./cerbero/main.py", line 105, in run_command res = commands.run(command, self.config, self.args) File "./cerbero/commands/__init__.py", line 78, in run return _commands[command].run(config, args) File "./cerbero/commands/package.py", line 82, in run pkg = Packager(config, p, self.store) File "./cerbero/packages/packager.py", line 53, in __new__ return _packagers[d][v](config, package, store) File "./cerbero/packages/debian.py", line 448, in __new__ return DebianPackager(config, package, store) File "./cerbero/packages/debian.py", line 187, in __init__ self.license = f.read() File "/usr/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) I’ve confirmed that I get the same error when running a native build in a docker container on an x86_64 VM so this problem is not specific to the ARM architecture. Does anyone have a solution for this issue? Regards, --- Matthew Thyer (08) 8313 9283 4.38 Ingkarni Wardli Adelaide University </div> </div> _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div>