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close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue
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** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1168206
Title:
UnicodeDecodeError raised from attach_hardware()
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in xdiagnose package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
As seen on bugs #1164623 and #1162151:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 197, in
_run_hook
symb['add_info'](report, ui)
File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_xserver-xorg-video-intel.py",
line 660, in add_info
attach_hardware(report)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/hookutils.py", line 246, in
attach_hardware
attach_dmi(report)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/hookutils.py", line 201, in
attach_dmi
value = fd.read().strip()
File "/usr/lib/python3.3/codecs.py", line 300, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0:
invalid start byte
attach_dmi() is an apport call. The dmi info's sometimes useful but
not crucial to have in X bug reports, so if it's erroring we can
safely skip its inclusion.
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