Comment 0 for bug 1761442

---Problem Description---
sosreport: ubuntu 16.04.04: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

---uname output---
Linux guest 4.15.0-13-generic #14~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Sat Mar 17 03:03:53 UTC 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

Machine Type = boston-LC

---Debugger---
A debugger is not configured

---Steps to Reproduce---
 running sosreport throws below error. report collection succeeds. this bug is to fix below:

root@guest:~/sosreport-guest-20180405020015/sos_logs# cat logs-plugin-errors.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/sosreport/sos/sosreport.py", line 1300, in collect
    plug.collect()
  File "/usr/share/sosreport/sos/plugins/__init__.py", line 877, in collect
    self._collect_strings()
  File "/usr/share/sosreport/sos/plugins/__init__.py", line 860, in _collect_strings
    (content.splitlines()[0]).decode('utf8', 'ignore'))
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

root@guest:~/sosreport-guest-20180405020015/sos_logs# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
root@guest:~/sosreport-guest-20180405020015/sos_logs# dpkg -l | grep -i sos
ii sosreport 3.5-1~ubuntu16.04.2 ppc64el Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system

== Comment: #5 - SEETEENA THOUFEEK <email address hidden> - 2018-04-05 04:53:10 ==
identified this commit will fix the issue.

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/commit/1fd12690870e85e8ac83b0e99bb272ce4489dc60