NetApp XCP sync error utf8 codec can't decode byte
Applies to
- NetApp XCP
- NFS
Issue
- During xcp sync the operation may fail with a unicode decode error shortly after a stale file handle error at the end of xcp.log:
nfs3 error 70: stale filehandle
ERROR: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xc1 in position 35: invalid start byte
- This unicode decode failure occurred due to a read trailer index error:
xcp read trailer index lab.repro.netapp:/repro_c_xcp/catalog/indexes/TST_srepro_c_lab/sync/sync.index read trailer
ERROR: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xd7 in position 160: invalid continuation byte
- Further sync attempts continue to fail with the same error.