1133297 - error while launching cfx run -p

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[olivier]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150113072850

Steps to reproduce:

Environment:
- Linux localhost.localdomain 3.18.5-nrjQL-desktop-1omv #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 5 20:39:14 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- addon-SDK-1.17
- latest Firefox or nightly

I am developing an addon to display selected bookmarks (an enhancement/rewrite of the myBookmarks addon). If I would like to test it with a profile but I am getting the following error:

(addon-sdk-1.17)[olivier@localhost My Favorites]$ cfx run -p ./myprofile

A given cfx option has an inappropriate value:
  'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 38: ordinal not in range(128)
(addon-sdk-1.17)[olivier@localhost My Favorites]$ 



Actual results:

Firefox with addon to test is not launched. The below error is instead displayed (looks like python issue). The "myprofile/extensions" directory is created but nothing else.

(addon-sdk-1.17)[olivier@localhost My Favorites]$ cfx run -p ./myprofile

A given cfx option has an inappropriate value:
  'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 38: ordinal not in range(128)
(addon-sdk-1.17)[olivier@localhost My Favorites]$ ls
data/  lib/  myprofile/  package.json  test/
(addon-sdk-1.17)[olivier@localhost My Favorites]$ ls myprofile
extensions/
(addon-sdk-1.17)[olivier@localhost My Favorites]$ ls myprofile/extensions
(addon-sdk-1.17)[olivier@localhost My Favorites]$ 



Expected results:

Firefox is launched with the given profile (where the addon will store/get an object) along with the addon I am testing.

Without the -p ./myprofile option, Firefox is launched and I can test my addon.

Comment 1

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

We aren't releasing any new versions of cfx, jpm is the replacement https://www.npmjs.com/package/jpm

Comment 2

[olivier]

Then I will move to jpm :). Thanks for the info.