Comment 22 for bug 1761442

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root@lp1761442-b:/tmp# grep sosreport sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608172937/installed-debs
ii sosreport 3.5-1ubuntu3 amd64 Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system
root@lp1761442-b:/tmp# cat sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608172937/sos_logs/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@lp1761442-b:/tmp# ls -l sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608172937/var/log/syslog
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jun 8 17:29 sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608172937/var/log/syslog -> ../../sos_strings/logs/var.log.syslog.tailed
root@lp1761442-b:/tmp# ls -l sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608172937/sos_strings/logs/*
ls: cannot access 'sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608172937/sos_strings/logs/*': No such file or directory

root@lp1761442-b:/tmp# grep sosreport sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608173903/installed-debs
ii sosreport 3.5-1ubuntu3.18.04.1 amd64 Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system
root@lp1761442-b:/tmp# ls -l sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608173903/var/log/syslog
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jun 8 17:39 sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608173903/var/log/syslog -> ../../sos_strings/logs/var.log.syslog.tailed
root@lp1761442-b:/tmp# ls -l sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608173903/sos_strings/logs/var.log.syslog.tailed
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1048576 Jun 8 17:39 sosreport-lp1761442-b.1234-20180608173903/sos_strings/logs/var.log.syslog.tailed