Oracle Linux: Leapp Preupgrade Check Fails with "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)" (Doc ID 3019170.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Applies to:

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

An Oracle Linux 7 (OL7) server is upgraded to Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) using the Leapp utility.

When running Leapp pre-upgrade checks, Leapp fails with the following error:

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