[BUG] WARNING ExtHandler Failed to decode event file: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1

[mries]

Appears to be the same bug as:
#1578

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS"

OMSversion:
Microsoft.EnterpriseCloud.Monitoring.OmsAgentForLinux-1.11.9
waagent version:
"WALinuxAgent-2.2.42"
Additional error from waagent.log:

2019/08/25 16:22:52.682659 WARNING ExtHandler Single event too large: Name="Message" Value="(0, {'__Inventory': MI_INSTANCEA: [{'Group': MI_STRING: 'root', 'Checksum': MI_STRING: '@{{Algoritm=MD5 Hash=BF8A0BC838CA0477B91F9EC87EAE6672 Path=/etc/ca-certificates.conf}}', 'DestinationPath': MI_STRING: '

Was the fix for 1578 pushed?

[ssimoe04]

I'm facing the same issue also on an Ubuntu dist, since 3 days ago.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
walinuxagent >> lastest version: 2.2.40-0ubuntu1~18.04.1

Thanks for keeping us up-to-date!
BR

[narrieta]

@mries @ssimoe04 this issue is being tracked in the OMS agent repo. There are a couple of issues opened there:

microsoft/OMS-Agent-for-Linux#873
microsoft/OMS-Agent-for-Linux#975