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Thank you. ** Changed in: cloud-init Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1710932 Title: Doesn't configure landscape client on py3 Status in cloud-init: Fix Released Bug description: Attempting to configure landscape-client on a py3 system falls over due to string/byte-string conversion issues Here's a sample run from MAAS: 2017-08-15 17:58:11,883 - util.py[DEBUG]: Running module landscape (<module 'cloudinit.config.cc_landscape' from '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_landscape.py'>) failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 793, in _run_modules freq=freq) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cloud.py", line 54, in run return self._runners.run(name, functor, args, freq, clear_on_fail) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/helpers.py", line 187, in run results = functor(*args) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_landscape.py", line 113, in handle merged.write(contents) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 2126, in write outfile.write(output_bytes) TypeError: string argument expected, got 'bytes' ubuntu@withkvm:/etc/landscape$ cat /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99_landscape_client.cfg landscape: client: url: "https://192.168.122.1/message-system" ping_url: "http://192.168.122.1/ping" data_path: "/var/lib/landscape/client" #http_proxy: "http://my.proxy.com/foobar" tags: "maas" computer_title: withkvm #https_proxy: fooproxy registration_key: test account_name: standalone Ryan validated py3 falling over just on basic ConfigObj.write() attempts: (foudres) ~ % python3 Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from configobj import ConfigObj >>> from six import StringIO >>> contents = StringIO() >>> merged = cfg = ConfigObj({}) >>> merged ConfigObj({}) >>> cfg.merge({'a': 1}) >>> cfg ConfigObj({'a': 1}) >>> type(contents) <class '_io.StringIO'> >>> merged.write(contents) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 2126, in write outfile.write(output_bytes) TypeError: string argument expected, got 'bytes' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1710932/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp