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UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte

Open kim0 opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

I'm trying this on testnet, and getting the below crash! Any help please

(.venv) root@5f39888528d5:/garecovery# hexdump -C ~/men
00000000  62 69 74 74 65 72 20 72  65 6d 69 6e 64 20 61 72  |bitter remind ar|
<snip>
00000080  72 79 20 6c 65 67 65 6e  64 20 67 75 6e 20 69 6d  |ry legend gun im|
00000090  69 74 61 74 65 0a                                 |itate.|
00000096
(.venv) root@5f39888528d5:/garecovery# hexdump -C nlock
00000000  47 41 65 6e 63 72 79 70  74 65 64 80 00 00 00 00  |GAencrypted.....|
00000010  5f f9 bb 90 65 fa b7 37  38 37 80 5e 69 f3 26 73  |_...e..787.^i.&s|
00000020  71 a5 ae 39 48 ac 86 ae  ce be 1d fd 9f 64 4a 70  |q..9H........dJp|
00000030  e8 93 90 aa ed 77 6a f1  02 5e 1a c8 b1 db 7f b2  |.....wj..^......|
00000040  c9 68 7a fc c1 69 01 5e  5a d1 12 43 39 f7 2e 04  |.hz..i.^Z..C9...|
00000050  62 80 f3 52 0d 4b ae 03  d8 ea c9 e6 1e d3 1f c3  |b..R.K..........|
00000060  ef f1 5e c5                                       |..^.|
00000064
(.venv) root@5f39888528d5:/garecovery# rm -rf garecovery.csv &&  garecovery-cli -n testnet --nlocktime-file nlock --mnemonic-file ~/men -d 2of2
INFO:root:Reading nlocktime transactions from nlock
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/garecovery/.venv/bin/garecovery-cli", line 7, in <module>
    sys.exit(recoverycli.main(sys.argv))
  File "/garecovery/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/garecovery/recoverycli.py", line 96, in main
    recovery = get_recovery(clargs.args, mnemonic, seed)
  File "/garecovery/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/garecovery/recoverycli.py", line 69, in get_recovery
    return TwoOfTwo(mnemonic, seed, options.nlocktime_file)
  File "/garecovery/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/garecovery/two_of_two.py", line 29, in __init__
    self.txdata = [json.loads(txdata.decode("ascii")) for txdata in zipdata]
  File "/garecovery/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/garecovery/two_of_two.py", line 29, in <listcomp>
    self.txdata = [json.loads(txdata.decode("ascii")) for txdata in zipdata]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

kim0 avatar Jan 10 '21 20:01 kim0

When I received the nlock zip file, I unzipped it before proceeding! It seems this is what was causing the issue. The error messages really need to improve, because blockstream is a company with reputation to protect. When people need to use this recovery tool, they will be very anxious so it really needs to be improved.

kim0 avatar Jan 10 '21 21:01 kim0