This bug was fixed in the package cloud-init - 18.1-5-g40e77380-0ubuntu1
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cloud-init (18.1-5-g40e77380-0ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium
* New upstream snapshot.
- GCE: fix reading of user-data that is not base64 encoded. (LP: #1752711)
- doc: fix chef install from apt packages example in RTD.
- Implement puppet 4 support [Romanos Skiadas] (LP: #1446804)
- subp: Fix subp usage with non-ascii characters when no system locale.
(LP: #1751051)
- salt: configure grains in grains file rather than in minion config.
[Daniel Wallace]
-- Chad Smith <chad.sm...@canonical.com> Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:47:04
-0700
** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1751051
Title:
UnicodeEncodeError when creating user with non-ascii chars
Status in cloud-init:
Confirmed
Status in subiquity:
New
Status in cloud-init package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
I was testing subiquity, and at the user creation prompt typed in
"André D'Silva" for the username, and just "andre" for the login.
The installer finished fine, but upon first login I couldn't login.
Booting into rescue mode showed me that the user had not been created.
Checking cloud-init logs, I find the UnicodeEncodeError.
2018-02-22 12:44:01,386 - __init__.py[DEBUG]: Adding user andre
2018-02-22 12:44:01,387 - util.py[WARNING]: Failed to create user andre
2018-02-22 12:44:01,387 - util.py[DEBUG]: Failed to create user andre
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/distros/__init__.py", line
463, in add_user
util.subp(adduser_cmd, logstring=log_adduser_cmd)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 1871, in subp
env=env, shell=shell)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1275, in _execute_child
restore_signals, start_new_session, preexec_fn)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe9' in position
4: ordinal not in range(128)
user-data contains this:
#cloud-config
hostname: sbqt
users:
- gecos: "Andr\xE9 D'Silva"
groups: [adm, cdrom, dip, lpadmin, plugdev, sambashare, debian-tor,
libvirtd, lxd,
sudo]
lock-passwd: false
name: andre
passwd:
$6$UaxxahbQam4Ko1g7$WB5tNuCR84DvWwI7ovxDiofIdLP47pG2USPel2iIQV/qzzT3pAb1VtlbelCR2iCNRxCoJgsVafcNtqdfz1/IL1
shell: /bin/bash
ssh_import_id: ['lp:ahasenack']
cloud-init is 17.2-34-g644048e3-0ubuntu1 from bionic/main.
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