Comment 134 for bug 285392

oops, apport-collect has failed (probably not finished completely) with this:
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Downloading bug...
Bug title: Softreset failed (device not ready)
Collecting apport information for source package linux-image-2.6.28-16-generic...
Uploading additional information to Launchpad bug...
   short text data...
   attachment: BootDmesg.gz...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-collect", line 173, in <module>
    upload(report, bug)
  File "/usr/bin/apport-collect", line 97, in upload
    filename=part.get_filename(), is_patch=False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/launchpadlib/resource.py", line 337, in __call__
    args[key] = simplejson.dumps(value, cls=DatetimeJSONEncoder)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/simplejson/__init__.py", line 243, in dumps
    **kw).encode(obj)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/simplejson/encoder.py", line 360, in encode
    return encode_basestring_ascii(o)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: unexpected code byte