Comment 6 for bug 1775371

Hi there Scott,

Not sure if totally related to this issue but I am faced similar symptoms on tip of tree in github

Commit: [
5407e3901f3206071a101defce2d8d24e85cc7c0 netinfo: Adjust ifconfig output parsing for FreeBSD ipv
]

https://github.com/cloud-init/cloud-init/commit/fff37e7dc6849fd16db504b0d338fae20a7beb39

Without the patch provided by
https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1775371/+attachment/5149292/+files/cloudinit-decodeerr-env1.diff

I face the same exception when using **query**

load_file
    return decode_binary(contents)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 150, in decode_binary
    return blob.decode(encoding)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 3432: invalid start byte

e.g

cloud-init query --format 'custom-{{instance_id}}.{{region}}.{{availability_zone}}.{{v1.cloud_name}}.com{{local_hostname}}'

After patch it works as expected and query returns the formatted string