This isn't a bug in system-image; I've been seeing this traceback in other contexts but now that this has been reported here I'll have to dig into it in more detail. FTR, I found it while working on dirtbike, the test suite of which manipulates packages in a chroot. What I discovered there is that the chroot had POSIX locale and an .egg-info file was being parsed that contained non-ascii characters (latin-1 in a person's name). I worked around this by ensuring the chroot had en_US.UTF-8 locale.
Something's changed though since this is a new bug affecting multiple packages. For now I'm going to retarget it to setuptools (pkg_resources) and will investigate further. ** Also affects: python-setuptools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1523806 Title: /usr/sbin/system-image-dbus:UnicodeDecodeError:/usr/sbin/system-image- dbus@5:/usr/lib/python3/dist- packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py@3143:_call_aside:_initialize_master_working_set:_build_master:__init__:add_entry:find_on_path:from_location:_version_from_metadata:_version_from_file:decode To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-setuptools/+bug/1523806/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs