Comment 13 for bug 2038648

Additionally, for the future, we could use this opportunity to further improve the sosreport SRU exception/test coverage [1,2] with release upgrade testing too (after understanding the details here; and it should be easy to automate).

Apparently this issue got in the SRU of sosreport 4.3 [3], but only got a bug report at the 4.4 timeframe.
(Ok, this means it isn't apparently widespread, which is good news, but we can always improve on catching issues early! :)

 --- sosreport-4.1/sos/report/plugins/gcp.py 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
 +++ sosreport-4.3/sos/report/plugins/gcp.py 2022-02-15 04:20:20.000000000 +0000
 ...
 + f"Failed to communicate with Metadata Server "
 + f"(code: {response.code}): " + response.read().decode())
 ...

 ...

Thanks again for all your work on this!

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#sosreport
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SosreportUpdates
[3] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/588301517/sosreport_4.1-1ubuntu0.18.04.3_4.3-1ubuntu0.18.04.1.diff.gz