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sudo eopkg up - System error. Program terminated. 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 0: invalid start byte
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Just since Saturday 17 Feb 2018, this error is coming

Now I can't get updates :-(

rizvan@solus3gnome ~ $ export LANG="en_US.utf8" 
rizvan@solus3gnome ~ $ echo $LANG
en_US.utf8

rizvan@solus3gnome ~ $ sudo eopkg up --debug
Updating repositories
DEBUG: RepoDB initialized in 0.000113964080811.
DEBUG: HistoryDB initialized in 0.00127577781677.
Updating repository: Solus
DEBUG: RepoDB initialized in 6.89029693604e-05.
System error. Program terminated.
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 0: invalid start byte
Please use 'eopkg help' for general help.

Traceback:
  File "/usr/bin/eopkg", line 82, in <module>
    cli.run_command()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/cli/pisicli.py", line 142, in run_command
    self.command.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/cli/upgrade.py", line 87, in run
    pisi.api.update_repos(repos)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/api.py", line 69, in wrapper
    ret = func(*__args,**__kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/api.py", line 811, in update_repos
    updated |= __update_repo(repo, force)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/api.py", line 831, in __update_repo
    index.read_uri_of_repo(repouri, repo)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/index.py", line 74, in read_uri_of_repo
    doc = self.read_uri(uri, tmpdir, force)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/index.py", line 56, in read_uri
    copylocal=True, nodecode=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/pxml/autoxml.py", line 443, in read
    compress=compress, sign=sign, copylocal=copylocal)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/pxml/xmlfile.py", line 85, in readxml
    raise Error(_("File '%s' has invalid XML") % (localpath) )
rizvan@solus3gnome ~ $

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DataDrake added a subscriber: DataDrake.

I can't reproduce this. Did you happen to use pip to install something?

Could have installed with pip like subliminal or other python program. Anyways, I reinstalled solus, so can't reproduce also.