This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1168206/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp