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Chef run failures on Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError: "\xC3" on US-ASCII
Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError: "\xC3" on US-ASCII
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `encode'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/json_compat.rb:45:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/rest.rb:245:in `api_request'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/rest.rb:156:in `put_rest'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:630:in `save'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/client.rb:210:in `save_updated_node'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/client.rb:422:in `do_run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/client.rb:176:in `run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/application.rb:140:in `run_chef_client'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/application/client.rb:274:in `block in run_application'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/application/client.rb:267:in `loop'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/application/client.rb:267:in `run_application'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/application.rb:72:in `run'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/bin/chef-client:26:in `<top (required)>'
/opt/chef/bin/chef-client:23:in `load'
/opt/chef/bin/chef-client:23:in `<main>
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Did you ever find a solution to this; I have come across this gist trying to trace down this error but there are only this gist and about 4 other pages showing up and none of them have a viable solution. One mentioned setting LC_TYPE and the other claimed that setting encoding to UTF-8 would solve it. Alas, neither does as advertised...

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