Comment 21 for bug 1761442

cosmic:

root@lp1761442-c:/tmp# grep sosreport sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608171415/installed-debs
ii sosreport 3.5-1ubuntu3 amd64 Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system
root@lp1761442-c:/tmp# cat sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608171415/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-c:/tmp# ls -l sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608171415/var/log/syslog
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jun 8 17:14 sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608171415/var/log/syslog -> ../../sos_strings/logs/var.log.syslog.tailed
root@lp1761442-c:/tmp# ls -l sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608171415/sos_strings/logs/var.log.syslog.tailed
ls: cannot access 'sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608171415/sos_strings/logs/var.log.syslog.tailed': No such file or directory

root@lp1761442-c:/tmp# grep sosreport sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608172234/installed-debs
ii sosreport 3.5-1ubuntu4 amd64 Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system
root@lp1761442-c:/tmp# ls -l sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608172234/var/log/syslog
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jun 8 17:22 sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608172234/var/log/syslog -> ../../sos_strings/logs/var.log.syslog.tailed
root@lp1761442-c:/tmp# ls -l sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608172234/sos_strings/logs/var.log.syslog.tailed
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1048576 Jun 8 17:22 sosreport-lp1761442-c.1234-20180608172234/sos_strings/logs/var.log.syslog.tailed