"'latin-1' codec can't encode characters" error when running carr script on VMware NSX

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• Running the carr script, as per KB Using Certificate Analyzer, Results and Recovery (CARR) Script to fix certificate related issues in NSX.
• Supported version of python is used.
• Error displayed onscreen:

Arguments: ()

--- Logging error ---

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/logging/__init__.py", line 1163, in emit

    stream.write(msg + self.terminator)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 90-232: ordinal not in range(256)

 

Call stack:

  File "/root/.virtualenvs/carr_script/bin/carr", line 8, in <module>

    sys.exit(main())

  File "/root/.virtualenvs/carr_script/lib/python3.12/site-packages/carr/main.py", line 173, in main

    invoke_validations(sys_config)

  File "/root/.virtualenvs/carr_script/lib/python3.12/site-packages/carr/main.py", line 145, in invoke_validations

    driver.invoke_validators()

  File "/root/.virtualenvs/carr_script/lib/python3.12/site-packages/carr/driver/driver.py", line 72, in invoke_validators

    self.print_report(validation_results, yaml_report_file)

  File "/root/.virtualenvs/carr_script/lib/python3.12/site-packages/carr/driver/driver.py", line 193, in print_report

    report.print_table()

  File "/root/.virtualenvs/carr_script/lib/python3.12/site-packages/carr/report/validation_report.py", line 101, in print_table

    console_logger.info(f"\n{self.table}")

• No validation report is generated.

Cause

The console where the carr script was run, is not setup for English.

Resolution

Workaround

• On the console run:
  export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
• And confirm the setting has taken affect using:
  locale
• And confirm the LANG=en_US.UTF-8 is now set.
• And run the carr script again.