Odd errors on vdsm_unit_tests

[Dan Kenigsberg]

Jenkins used to send email notifications about unit tests failures to
vdsm-patches at lists.fedorahosted.org at least until March 20.

Come to think of it, the emails seized to have content on March 5.

Now they are not sent at all.

Beyond this, we have a very odd non-deterministic failure
http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/1976/console
(except below).

Could the test be run with an unusual locale?
Does anybody have another idea?

Could someone (Giuseppe? David?) log into this fedora18-vm01 slave and try to
reproduce the issue from the command line?

Regards,
Dan.

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ERROR: test_deviceCustomProperties (hooksTests.TestHooks)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/jenkins-workspaces/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/tests/hooksTests.py", line 125, in test_deviceCustomProperties
    params={'customProperty': ' rocks!'})
  File "/jenkins-workspaces/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/vdsm/hooks.py", line 72, in _runHooksDir
    scriptenv[k] = unicode(v).encode('utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

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ERROR: test_runHooksDir (hooksTests.TestHooks)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/jenkins-workspaces/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/tests/hooksTests.py", line 72, in test_runHooksDir
    res = hooks._runHooksDir(DOMXML, dirName)
  File "/jenkins-workspaces/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/vdsm/hooks.py", line 72, in _runHooksDir
    scriptenv[k] = unicode(v).encode('utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)