pro status fails with utf-8 decode error

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

WSL Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

$ LC_ALL=C apt policy ubuntu-pro-client
ubuntu-pro-client:
  Installed: 32.3~24.04

$ locale
LANG=fr_FR
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR"
LC_TIME="fr_FR"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR"
LC_NAME="fr_FR"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR"
LC_ALL=

With the locale above (on WSL if it matters) I get the following error:

$ pro status
An unexpected error occurred: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 18: invalid start byte
For more details, see the log: /home/u/.cache/ubuntu-pro/ubuntu-pro.log
If you think this is a bug, please run: ubuntu-bug ubuntu-advantage-tools

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: ubuntu-advantage-tools (not installed)
Uname: Linux 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CloudArchitecture: x86_64
CloudID: wsl
CloudName: wsl
CloudPlatform: wsl
CloudSubPlatform: unknown
Date: Tue Jun 18 14:37:28 2024
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: ubuntu-advantage-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
apparmor_logs.txt:

cloud-id.txt: wsl
jobs-status.json: {"metering": null, "update_contract_info": null, "update_messaging": {"last_run": "2024-06-18T12:25:32.496583+00:00", "next_run": "2024-06-18T18:25:32.496583+00:00"}}
livepatch-status.txt-error: Invalid command specified '/snap/bin/canonical-livepatch status'.
uaclient.conf:
 contract_url: https://contracts.canonical.com
 log_level: debug

[Grant Orndorff (orndorffgrant)]

Thank you for reporting this jibel!

I've reproduced this issue on a lxd-container and the root cause seems to be bug 2060769 so I'm marking this as a duplicate.

This is fixed upstream and will be released in v33 of ubuntu-pro-client, tracked in bug 2069237 and scheduled to be released in late July.