[DRE-maint] Bug#596351: ohai fails with: to_json: source sequence is illegal/malformed

[Alexander Kurtz]

Hi everybody,

AFAICT ohai works fine nowadays:

	$ getent passwd 1000
	alexander:x:1000:1000:Alexander' Kurtz£,,,,:/home/alexander:/bin/bash
	$ ohai 
	{
	  [...]
	  "platform": "debian"
	}
	$ 

Chris Butler suggested[1] that this commit to ruby-json might be a fix:

	https://github.com/flori/json/commit/dd06e48aa414674f52e81f9cdc7836b6456c04f8

This commit seems to be included in the latest version of ruby-json:

	$ grep --recursive --context=3 'def benchmark_generator_ascii' ruby-json-1.5.3/
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator2_benchmark.rb-
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator2_benchmark.rb-  alias reset_benchmark_generator_pretty generic_reset_method
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator2_benchmark.rb-
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator2_benchmark.rb:  def benchmark_generator_ascii
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator2_benchmark.rb-    @result = JSON.generate(@big, :ascii_only => true)
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator2_benchmark.rb-  end
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator2_benchmark.rb-
	--
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator_benchmark.rb-
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator_benchmark.rb-  alias reset_benchmark_generator_pretty generic_reset_method
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator_benchmark.rb-
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator_benchmark.rb:  def benchmark_generator_ascii
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator_benchmark.rb-    @result = JSON.generate(@big, :ascii_only => true)
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator_benchmark.rb-  end
	ruby-json-1.5.3/benchmarks/generator_benchmark.rb-
	$ 

Unless somebody tells me otherwise, I'm going to reassign this bug to
ruby-json and close it with the appropriate version in a few days.

Best regards

Alexander Kurtz

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596351#50
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