I did find an existing sosreport I have that includes this error; I'll look at the code to see what's going on.
** Changed in: sosreport (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of STS Sponsors, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1761442 Title: sosreport: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project: Triaged Status in sosreport package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: ---Problem Description--- sosreport: ubuntu 16.04.04: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' ---uname output--- Linux guest 4.15.0-13-generic #14~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Sat Mar 17 03:03:53 UTC 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux Machine Type = boston-LC ---Debugger--- A debugger is not configured ---Steps to Reproduce--- running sosreport throws below error. report collection succeeds. this bug is to fix below: root@guest:~/sosreport-guest-20180405020015/sos_logs# cat logs-plugin-errors.txt Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/sosreport/sos/sosreport.py", line 1300, in collect plug.collect() File "/usr/share/sosreport/sos/plugins/__init__.py", line 877, in collect self._collect_strings() File "/usr/share/sosreport/sos/plugins/__init__.py", line 860, in _collect_strings (content.splitlines()[0]).decode('utf8', 'ignore')) AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' root@guest:~/sosreport-guest-20180405020015/sos_logs# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial root@guest:~/sosreport-guest-20180405020015/sos_logs# dpkg -l | grep -i sos ii sosreport 3.5-1~ubuntu16.04.2 ppc64el Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system == Comment: #5 - SEETEENA THOUFEEK <sthou...@in.ibm.com> - 2018-04-05 04:53:10 == identified this commit will fix the issue. https://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/1fd12690870e85e8ac83b0e99bb272ce4489dc60 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-systems/+bug/1761442/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sts-sponsors Post to : sts-sponsors@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sts-sponsors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp