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List:       qubes-users
Subject:    Re: [qubes-users] UnicodeDecodeError during Qubes 4.0 installation
From:       "'awokd' via qubes-users" <qubes-users () googlegroups ! com>
Date:       2018-09-26 22:21:07
Message-ID: ddd8734f-a543-d454-7322-40aeecc07345 () danwin1210 ! me
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C. wrote on 9/26/18 11:26 AM:
> Hello!
> 
> I have a strange problem when trying to install Qubes 4.0 through USB. I get to the \
> first installer screen (language selection), but then I get an "undefined error" \
> and I can not move forward with the installation. The error: 
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can not decode byte 0xed in position 5: invalid \
> continuation byte 
> I have tried to install in 2 different USB, always with dd and as indicated in the \
> installation guide, but without luck: 
> sudo dd if=Qubes-R4.0-x86_64.iso of=/dev/disk3 bs=1048576 && sync
> 
> Looking for information I see that the error is from Python3, but I do not know how \
> to fix it in the installer or in the USB itself. If anyone has any suggestions or \
> can indicate the correct path I would be more than grateful.

There's this issue out there: 
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4229. Hard to tell if 
it's related, but do you have any hardware with non-ASCII names in it? 
Could also try installing in legacy mode instead of UEFI.

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