Hello All,
I receive the following error after starting Splunk enterprise for the first time after an upgrade from 8.2.9 to 9.0.4.1 ; otherwise no other problem seen prior:
Exception: <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'>, Value: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 1212, in main parseAndRun(argsList) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 1067, in parseAndRun retVal = cList.getCmd(command, subCmd).call(argList, fromCLI = True) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 293, in call return self.func(args, fromCLI) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/control_api.py", line 35, in wrapperFunc return func(dictCopy, fromCLI) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/_internal.py", line 189, in firstTimeRun migration.autoMigrate(args[ARG_LOGFILE], isDryRun) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/migration.py", line 3379, in autoMigrate migrate_add_default_dashboard_xml_version_1_1(dryRun) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/migration.py", line 3131, in migrate_add_default_dashboard_xml_version_1_1 dashboard_contents = f.read() File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/codecs.py", line 322, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte
Any help would / pointers would be appreciated!
~J
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