Bug 1757787

Summary:	[cloud-init][rhel 7.7] Error persisting instance-data.json: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xcf in position 5
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Matt Flusche <mflusche>
Component:	cloud-init	Assignee:	Eduardo Otubo <eterrell>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Yuhui Jiang <yujiang>
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Version:	7.6	CC:	jgreguske, ribarry, yujiang
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Last Closed:	2019-10-08 20:11:03 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Matt Flusche 2019-10-02 13:00:39 UTC

Description of problem:

In the current rhel 7.7 cloud image the following error occurs with cloud-init.

[   45.617604] cloud-init[931]: 2019-09-30 21:27:31,094 - __init__.py[WARNING]: Error persisting instance-data.json: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xcf in position 5: invalid continuation byte

https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1801364

https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init/commit/?id=067516d7

Please include this bug fix.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

cloud-init-18.5-3.el7.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot current rhel 7.7 cloud-image (rhel-server-7.7-update-1-x86_64-kvm.qcow2) in openstack and observe error above.