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Spacewalk: Fails to Sync Repo/Channel with the Following "ERROR: 'ascii' Codec Can't Decode Byte 0xe2 In Position 52" (Doc ID 2719432.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 21, 2020

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.0 and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

Spacewalk-repo-sync fails with the following error message "ERROR: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 52".

-/var/log/rhn/reposync/<repo name>.log

Cause

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