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==UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte== | ==UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte== | ||
When attempting to update Ubuntu from version 14.04 LTS to 16.04 using the command '''do-release-upgrade''' you may encounter the following error: | |||
:[[File:TS1.png]] | |||
This error is caused by non utf-8 characters in the /var/lib/dpkg/status file. Follow the instructions below to identify and remove these characters. | |||
# '''grep -avx '.*' /var/lib/dpkg/status''' | # '''grep -avx '.*' /var/lib/dpkg/status''' | ||
#: This will display any not utf-8 characters in the file | #: This will display any not utf-8 characters in the file | ||
# '''sudo nano /var/lib/ | #: [[File:TS1.png]] | ||
# '''sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/status''' | |||
# Locate the bad characters and delete them | # Locate the bad characters and delete them | ||
# Save the file | # Save the file | ||
Revision as of 18:18, 16 March 2018
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte
When attempting to update Ubuntu from version 14.04 LTS to 16.04 using the command do-release-upgrade you may encounter the following error:
This error is caused by non utf-8 characters in the /var/lib/dpkg/status file. Follow the instructions below to identify and remove these characters.
- grep -avx '.*' /var/lib/dpkg/status
- This will display any not utf-8 characters in the file
- sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/status
- Locate the bad characters and delete them
- Save the file
/boot is out of space
- dpkg -l | grep linux-image
- This will display all the kernels currently installed. All but the most recent can be safely deleted.
- apt-get remove old-linux-kernel-package-name
- ex: apt-get remove linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic