Comment 5 for bug 1554365

This is the traceback from the logs in 16.04:

apt.systemd.daily[957]: Traceback (most recent call last):
apt.systemd.daily[957]: File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 1473, in <module>
apt.systemd.daily[957]: main(options)
apt.systemd.daily[957]: File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 1411, in main
apt.systemd.daily[957]: log_content = get_dpkg_log_content(logfile_dpkg, install_start_time)
apt.systemd.daily[957]: File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 1079, in get_dpkg_log_content
apt.systemd.daily[957]: for line in fp.readlines():
apt.systemd.daily[957]: File "/usr/lib/python3.5/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
apt.systemd.daily[957]: (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
apt.systemd.daily[957]: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 758: invalid start byte

Could it be that dpkg logs according to locale settings? These are the ones on this host:

LANG=de_DE
LANGUAGE=de_DE:
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE"
LC_TIME="de_DE"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE"
LC_PAPER="de_DE"
LC_NAME="de_DE"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE"
LC_ALL=