TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly

When updating a repo in Repomaker, it sometimes fails with the following error:

INFO:background_task.tasks:Running maker.tasks.update_repo
DEBUG:root:Reading com.ichi2.anki_20802300.apk from cache
ERROR:background_task.tasks:Rescheduling maker.tasks.update_repo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/nico/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/background_task/tasks.py", line 44, in bg_runner
    func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/nico/Work/Current/F-Droid/repomaker/maker/tasks.py", line 28, in update_repo
    repo.update()
  File "/home/nico/Work/Current/F-Droid/repomaker/maker/models/repository.py", line 294, in update
    files, file_cache_changed = update.scan_repo_files(apkcache, REPO_DIR, knownapks, False)
  File "/home/nico/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fdroidserver/update.py", line 839, in scan_repo_files
    logging.debug("Ignoring stale cache data for " + name)
TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly
WARNING:background_task.models:Rescheduling task maker.tasks.update_repo for 0:00:21 later at 2017-06-30 11:46:01.373201+00:00

Sadly I cannot say when it happens, but if it happens once, it keeps throwing this error. I'm currently workarounding by deleting the repo and creating a new one.

Repomaker currently uses fdroidserver from https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/commit/686c7423623035fc37dff26ff51e8aeccea9ba27. When updating it to https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/commit/0d3f4547a9589f7af36e6eec2d931fccb7bc0519 (master) I get the following error:

Rescheduling maker.tasks.update_repo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/nico/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/background_task/tasks.py", line 44, in bg_runner
    func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/nico/Work/Current/F-Droid/repomaker/maker/tasks.py", line 28, in update_repo
    repo.update()
  File "/home/nico/Work/Current/F-Droid/repomaker/maker/models/repository.py", line 280, in update
    apks, cache_changed = update.process_apks(apkcache, REPO_DIR, knownapks, False)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'process_apks'

Looks like an fdroiserver bug.

When updating it to https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/commit/0d3f4547a9589f7af36e6eec2d931fccb7bc0519 (master) I get the following error:

Yes, because the commit we are using still hasn't been merged...

I wanted to open it there, but then thought it's because of us using an old version.

Maybe it's fixed there and you just need to rebase your MR?

My branch has been merged and master is rebased. Can you try again?

When I played around a little bit I was not able to reproduce this so I will close this for now. Thanks for the update!

closed