Bug 81144 - logwatch keeps complaining of "Malformed UTF-8 character"
Summary: logwatch keeps complaining of "Malformed UTF-8 character"
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: logwatch
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliot Lee
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: 88293 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 79579
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Reported: 2003-01-06 04:38 UTC by Aleksey Nogin
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:49 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 4.3.2-2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-07-10 15:20:54 UTC
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2003-01-06 04:38:46 UTC 
Every few days I would receive a 200-500Kb long cron message with hundreds lines
of the form:

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 17.

This used to be happening a lot with 8.0 and seems to be still happening in Phoebe.

P.S. I am running my system with LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2003-02-19 23:22:19 UTC 
Try logwatch 4.3.1 please
Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2003-03-04 11:31:53 UTC 
Just got it in beta5 with logwatch-4.3.1-2: 

/etc/cron.daily/00-logwatch:

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 110.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 110.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 110.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 110.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 355.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 355.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 356.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 356.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 357.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 357.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 110.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x5c, immediately
after start byte 0xd0) in pattern match (m//) at
/etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeservice line 29, <STDIN> line 110.
...

And it goes on for a total of 648K of these messages!
Comment 3 Elliot Lee 2003-04-11 16:58:02 UTC 
*** Bug 88293 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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