Admin zone breaks

[aribao@…]

Hello, I'm using Debian sid, python 2.4 (and 2.5), django 0.95.1, and mysql 5. The tables created have collation utf8-bin.
When I tried to open the admin zone, I got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
  74. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/django/contrib/admin/views/decorators.py" in _checklogin
  49. if request.user.is_authenticated() and request.user.is_staff:
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py" in get_user
  71. user_id = request.session[SESSION_KEY]
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/django/contrib/sessions/middleware.py" in __getitem__
  18. return self._session[key]
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/django/contrib/sessions/middleware.py" in _get_session
  57. self._session_cache = s.get_decoded()
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/django/contrib/sessions/models.py" in get_decoded
  61. encoded_data = base64.decodestring(self.session_data)

  TypeError at /admin/
  a2b_base64() argument 1 must be string or read-only character buffer, not array.array

I solved it changing the collation of the field session_data in the django_session table from utf8-bin to latin1_general_ci.
There is a bug using utf8-bin in that field.

Thank you.

[James Bennett]

(fixed traceback formatting)