Details
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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Normal
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Resolution: Fixed
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None
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None
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Phoenix
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2
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Phoenix 2022-06-08, Phoenix 2022-06-22
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Needs Assessment
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Bug Fix
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When running in the C locale, facter failed to parse YAML-based external facts when the contents were UTF-8 encoded.
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Needs Assessment
Description
Description:
The customer has recently updated from Puppet 6 to 7 which means facter has switched from v3 to v4. This introduced some bugs for them:
Their current system `locale` is set to `LANG=C`, their fact has some Swedish ASCII characters which are being denied by facter 4 when the system locale is not set to a value that supports the ASCII character.
Example:
[root@c7s-21efc7-0 ~]# export LANG=C
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[root@c7s-21efc7-0 ~]# facter testfacts
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[2022-04-20 10:48:17.658941 ] ERROR Facter - Failed to handle /opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/testfacts.yaml as LegacyFacter::Util::Parser::YamlParser facts: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII
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[root@c7s-21efc7-0 ~]# export LANG=sv_SE.utf8
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[root@c7s-21efc7-0 ~]# facter testfacts
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{
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DomainDescription => "UppstrÃx96m,Ludvig",
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Group => "Sweden",
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Role => "Development",
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TimeZone => "110",
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UserLastFirst => "UppstrÃx96m,Ludvig",
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status => "pass"
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}
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I have attached a bash script that will set the replication set for this and the code with EXPORT can be used to replicate the issue after running the script.