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Bug 81144

Summary:	logwatch keeps complaining of "Malformed UTF-8 character"
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	logwatch	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	kth
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Fixed In Version:	4.3.2-2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	79579

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. ***