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[3/5] qemurunner: Use backslashreplace with utf8 to make invalid characters clear

Message ID 20231004123823.2990916-3-richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org
State Accepted, archived
Commit 8ec86d46f736ec3e625b741e97545377c79414ee
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Series [1/5] wic: Add console parameters to qemux86 canned-wks | expand

Commit Message

Richard Purdie Oct. 4, 2023, 12:38 p.m. UTC 
Switch to the backslashreplace error handling when decoding strings so that
invalid characters are clear in the stream to improve debugging.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
index b8f51112861..b738a261d87 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/utils/qemurunner.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@  class QemuRunner:
 
     def decode_qemulog(self, todecode):
         # Sanitize the data received from qemu as it may contain control characters
-        msg = todecode.decode("utf-8", errors='ignore')
+        msg = todecode.decode("utf-8", errors='backslashreplace')
         msg = re_control_char.sub('', msg)
         return msg
 
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@  class QemuRunner:
                         self.logger.error('Invalid file type: %s\n%s' % (file))
                         read = b''
 
-                    self.logger.debug2('Partial boot log:\n%s' % (read.decode('utf-8', errors='ignore')))
+                    self.logger.debug2('Partial boot log:\n%s' % (read.decode('utf-8', errors='backslashreplace')))
                     data = data + read
                     if data:
                         bootlog += data