Comment 0 for bug 1583837

Ubuntu 16.04

# dpkg -l | grep cloud-init
ii cloud-init 0.7.7~bzr1212-0ubuntu1 all Init scripts for cloud instances
ii cloud-initramfs-copymods 0.27ubuntu1 all copy initramfs modules into root filesystem for later use
ii cloud-initramfs-dyn-netconf 0.27ubuntu1 all write a network interface file in /run for BOOTIF

util.write_file is trying to UTF-8 encode the text before writing, but UrlResponse doesn't have an "encode" method.

Trace from syslog:

May 19 23:27:09 ubuntu [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Running module chef (<module 'cloudinit.config.cc_chef' from '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_chef.py'>) failed#012Traceback (most rec
ent call last):#012 File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 739, in _run_modules#012 freq=freq)#012 File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cloud.py", line 70, in run#0
12 return self._runners.run(name, functor, args, freq, clear_on_fail)#012 File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/helpers.py", line 199, in run#012 results = functor(*args)#012 File "/usr/l
ib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_chef.py", line 257, in handle#012 run = install_chef(cloud, chef_cfg, log)#012 File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_chef.py", line 313,
 in install_chef#012 util.write_file(tmpf, content, mode=0o700)#012 File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 1643, in write_file#012 content = encode_text(content)#012 File "/
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 97, in encode_text#012 return text.encode(encoding)#012AttributeError: 'UrlResponse' object has no attribute 'encode'