winrm-exec.py Errors

[hs-hub-world]

Hi, with the latest release of py-winrm-plugin I am seeing these errors when executing PS scripts.
Note, I rolled back to previous version 2.0.0 and that works fine.

Hope the image provides enough data.

Thanks,
HS

[ltamaster]

Hi @hs-hub-world:

Can you share some info about your environment?

• python version
• windows remote version
• an example of your script if it is possible.

Thanks
Luis

[hs-hub-world]

Hello @ltamaster

Python version = 2.7.5
PIP PyWinrM = pywinrm (0.3.0)

sorry I don't have the example to share at the moment. I'll have to reinstall the latest version of pywinrm to recreate some examples. I'll try to do it later this week.

Thank you
HS

[ltamaster]

no problem, which is your remote windows version?

[hs-hub-world]

Windows 2016

PS version:

[ltamaster]

I wasn't able to reproduce it with python 2.7.10 and a Windows Server 2012.
Checking it with 2.7.5

[hs-hub-world]

sorry I had a typo, I update the post it's Win version 2016

[ltamaster]

Sorry I wasn't able to reproduce it with the same scenario.
Please let me know if you can share your job (it could be useful).

I have the feeling that the line 70-71 is producing the error

print("Warning: there was a problem converting the Powershell"
                  " error message: %s" % (e))

But I need to know why that handler is reached
I will remove that line, let me know if you get a different result.
(can you try with:
https://github.com/rundeck-plugins/py-winrm-plugin/releases/tag/2.0.2-SNAPSHOT
)
Thanks
Luis

[ondrejbaranek]

Hi, i get similar issue:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x83 in position 56: invalid start byte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/rundeck/libext/cache/py-winrm-plugin-2.0.1/winrm-exec.py", line 163, in
errorread=session._clean_error_msg(sys.stderr.read())
File "/var/lib/rundeck/libext/cache/py-winrm-plugin-2.0.1/winrm_session.py", line 49, in _clean_error_msg
msg = msg.decode('utf-8')
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)

python: 2.7.5
winrm on remote: win 2016

AFAIK this is most likely issue with encoding - line 46 in winrm_session.py: msg = msg.decode('utf-8')

[ltamaster]

Hi @ondrejbaranek,
what kind of command or string are you running?

I would like to reproduce that error.

Thanks
Luis

[ondrejbaranek]

@ltamaster It is PowerShell script, runs fine until section with: puppet apply site.pp --modulepath=modules --hiera_config=hiera.yaml

[ltamaster]

Hi @ondrejbaranek ,

Could you try the snapshot version?
https://github.com/rundeck-plugins/py-winrm-plugin/releases/tag/2.0.2-SNAPSHOT

[ondrejbaranek]

Already tried, same error.

[ltamaster]

Did you tried py-winrm-plugin-2.0.3-SNAPSHOT.zip? or the previous one?
Notice that I generated a new SNAPSHOT version when I sent you the previous message
Luis

[hs-hub-world]

I'll try the snapshot version later today or tomorrow, to add little more context, the error occurred when executing PS1 from the remote node and not when doing direct execution from rundeck/adhoc command. Maybe related to encoding?

[ondrejbaranek]

2.0.3 snapshot is even worse, it is translating the characters wrongly: it is inline script copied from UTF8 CRLF
in the script it is: Remove-Item -path "c:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\puppet\cache"
Remove-Item ?"path "c:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\puppet\cache"

• CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (?path c:String) [Remove-Item], DriveNotFoundException

[ltamaster]

@ondrejbaranek
I wasn't able to reproduce that.
To replicate what you did, are you running a remote script that contains that Remove-Item -path "xxx" command, or are you running that from rundeck (like part of an inline script step)?
I tested both cases and I didn't get the issue.

What I got, which is probably the issue, that it is not displayed correctly some special characters like write-host "Ñuñoa"

[ltamaster]

@hs-hub-world @ondrejbaranek
I generated a new snapshot version. I was able to deal with special characters.
Please let me know if this works for you
https://github.com/rundeck-plugins/py-winrm-plugin/releases/tag/2.0.2-SNAPSHOT

[hs-hub-world]

the snapshot version seems to be working fine for me...

Thank you
HS

[ltamaster]

great @hs-hub-world thanks for the feedback

[ondrejbaranek]

@ltamaster the latest snapshot works so far. Thanks!

[ltamaster]

I generated a new release.