Comment 4 for bug 1370259

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2014-10-16 04:15 EDT-------
Still not fixed with latest builds.

root@lep8d:~# dpkg -l | grep apport
iF apport 2.14.7-0ubuntu7 all automatically generate crash reports for debugging
ii apport-gtk 2.14.7-0ubuntu6 all GTK+ frontend for the apport crash report system
ii apport-symptoms 0.20 all symptom scripts for apport
ii python-apport 2.14.7-0ubuntu6 all Python library for Apport crash report handling
ii python3-apport 2.14.7-0ubuntu7 all Python 3 library for Apport crash report handling
root@lep8d:~# apport-cli -f -p linux-generic --save=/home/sachin/linux.apport

*** Collecting problem information

The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
application. This might take a few minutes.
...tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
....ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/general-hooks/powerpc.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 197, in _run_hook
symb['add_info'](report, ui)
File "/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/powerpc.py", line 72, in add_info
'nvram': 'cat /dev/nvram',
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/hookutils.py", line 469, in attach_root_command_outputs
buf = f.read().strip()
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 313, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 1: invalid start byte
...
root@lep8d:~#