Hi! I want to add some other observations to this bug. reportbug seems to die during the parsing of /var/lib/dpkg/status, hitting some incorrectly encoded characters. But if I launch reportbug with
LC_ALL=de_DE@euro reportbug netdata switching to the old 8bit locale, I am able to report a bug against netdata. | UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 5333: invalid start byte The character "0xa3" would be the "£" sign in ISO-8859-1 I am seeing this character on i386 in the following package: Package: libfsplib0 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 76 Maintainer: £ØÙ<85>د اÙ<84>Ù<85>ØÙ<85>Ù<88>دÙ<8a> (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <[email protected]> Architecture: i386 Source: fsplib Version: 0.11-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2) There is another package from Ahmed El-Mahmoudy in the file, but here his name is encoded differently: Package: libharfbuzz0b Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 985 Maintainer: Ø£ØÙ<85>د اÙ<84>Ù<85>ØÙ<85>Ù<88>دÙ<8a> (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <[email protected]> Architecture: i386 Multi-Arch: same Source: harfbuzz (1.2.7-1) Version: 1.2.7-1+b1 Looking at the status file with "od -t cx1 /var/lib/dpkg/status" shows the following byte sequences: a) wrong: 243 330 255 331 205 330 257 a3 d8 ad d9 85 d8 af b) right: 330 243 330 255 331 205 330 257 d8 a3 d8 ad d9 85 d8 af So far I only see this problem in my i386 Sid system, the files on the amd64 systems seem correct and reportbug does not show any errors there. Grüße, Sven.
