** Description changed:
- ---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:
+ [impact]
- root@guest:~/sosreport-guest-20180405020015/sos_logs# cat
logs-plugin-errors.txt
+ sosreport plugin(s) fail
+
+ [test case]
+
+ run sosreport, then extract the captured report and check the sos_logs
+ /logs-plugin-errors.txt file for output like:
+
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'
+
+ [regression potential]
+
+ the currently failing plugins fail to gather any of their data, so there
+ is not much regression for them, but this change has the potential to
+ affect any plugin and prevent data gathering.
+
+ [other info]
+
+ original description below.
+ ---
+
+ ---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 <[email protected]> - 2018-04-05
04:53:10 ==
- identified this commit will fix the issue.
+ identified this commit will fix the issue.
https://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/1fd12690870e85e8ac83b0e99bb272ce4489dc60
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