Hello Victor, URL used is [ http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=7&arch=x86_64&repo=os | http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=7&arch=x86_64&repo=os ] Let me try with -f. Will report back in a while. Am also trying to take the code apart now. Best wishes, Stefan Von: "Victor Zhestkov" <Victor.Zhestkov@suse.com> An: "opensuse org" <opensuse.org@bluhm-de.com>, "uyuni-users" <uyuni-users@opensuse.org> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2021 08:16:03 Betreff: Re: UTF-8 issue during reposync Hi Stefan. Could you please run spacewalk-repo-sync for this channel with --fail or -f command line parameters appended? It should write a traceback on the error. And what is the URL for the repo? Victor On Thu, 2021-12-23 at 08:00 +0100, Stefan Bluhm wrote: Hello, whilst trying to do the initial CentOS 7 import into Uyuni 12.2021 on AlmaLinux 8, I am hitting the below reproducible error: 2021/12/23 07:52:50 +02:00 Package batch #471 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:52:50 +02:00 Package batch #472 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:52:50 +02:00 Package batch #473 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:52:50 +02:00 Package batch #474 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:52:50 +02:00 Package batch #475 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:52:50 +02:00 Package batch #476 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:52:51 +02:00 Package batch #477 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:52:51 +02:00 Package batch #478 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:52:51 +02:00 Package batch #479 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:52:51 +02:00 Package batch #480 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:53:41 +02:00 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcf8' in position 19: surrogates not allowed 2021/12/23 07:53:41 +02:00 Package batch #388 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:53:45 +02:00 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcf8' in position 19: surrogates not allowed 2021/12/23 07:53:45 +02:00 Package batch #387 of 480 completed... 2021/12/23 07:53:45 +02:00 Importing packages finished. 2021/12/23 07:53:45 +02:00 2021/12/23 07:53:45 +02:00 Linking packages to the channel. 2021/12/23 07:54:13 +02:00 Unexpected error: <class 'spacewalk.server.importlib.importLib.InvalidPackageError'> Do you have any experience what this means? Is it a DB/File System/Package or code issue (bug)? In the meantime, I will see if I can spot the error package/code location. Thank you and best wishes, Stefan