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.
This bug was fixed in the package xdiagnose - 3.5
---------------
xdiagnose (3.5) raring-proposed; urgency=low
* apport/
+ Catch exceptions thrown from attach_hardware() call, such as for
errors in unicode handling.
(LP: #1168206)
+ Only prompt for generating an nvidia-
interactive sessions (i.e. check that ui is defined.)
(LP: #1163635)
-- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:53:27 -0700