SSH invalid byte sequence

Posted on February 20, 2015

Tags: Chef

Small memo about an issue I had with Chef knife and Capistrano commands.

I kept receiving the following error

SSHKit::Runner::ExecuteError: Exception while executing as root@192.168.33.33: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8

After looking around at my SSH files, I found out that ~/.ssh/known_hosts contained some weird data, which was causing the error. Removing the concerned data fixed the issue for me.