IPA replica installation fails with "'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)" error.

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Issue

  • IPA replica installation fails with ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 25: ordinal not in range(128) error.
  • During this time, following logs can be seen in ipareplica-install.log file.
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/installutils.py", line 471, in get_host_name
    verify_fqdn(hostname, no_host_dns)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/installutils.py", line 148, in verify_fqdn
    raise BadHostError("Invalid hostname '%s', %s" % (host_name, unicode(e)))

2017-04-25T12:01:25Z DEBUG The ipa-replica-install command failed, exception: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)
2017-04-25T12:01:25Z ERROR 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

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