The error message from 'json-c' was passed along without any libvirt string which makes it hard to find in the source and isn't exactly clear when present in logs: libvirtd[843]: internal error : invalid utf-8 string Prefix the message with 'failed to parse JSON'. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virjson.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/virjson.c b/src/util/virjson.c index 42018a98b4..4a95e84f5b 100644 --- a/src/util/virjson.c +++ b/src/util/virjson.c @@ -1467,7 +1467,8 @@ virJSONValueFromString(const char *jsonstring) jerr = json_tokener_get_error(tok); if (jerr != json_tokener_success) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, - "%s", json_tokener_error_desc(jerr)); + _("failed to parse JSON: %1$s"), + json_tokener_error_desc(jerr)); goto cleanup; } ret = virJSONValueFromJsonC(jobj); -- 2.47.0