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------- Comment From thierry.fauck at fr.ibm.com 2016-09-30 07:07 EDT-------
On xenial, problem still present
ubuntu at vm76:~$ ( cat /etc/os-release /proc/version; lsb_release -is ) | grep -iq Ubuntu && echo It-is-
Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
It-is-
ubuntu at vm76:~$ dpkg -l bash grep
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                      Version           Architecture      Description
+++-=========================-=================-=================-========================================================
ii  bash                      4.3-14ubuntu1     ppc64el           GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  grep                      2.25-1~16.04.1    ppc64el           GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ubuntu at vm76:~$ sh -c 'lsb_release -is | false'
Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

and on Yakketi even if grep release is higher, problem exists
$ dpkg -l bash grep
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  bash           4.3-15ubuntu ppc64el      GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  grep           2.25-6       ppc64el      GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ubuntu at vm20:~$ sh -c 'lsb_release -is | false'
Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

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Title:
  lsb_release throws exception if stdout is closed

Status in lsb package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Liang Chang Guo <lcguo at us.ibm.com> - 2015-10-06 20:43:30 ==
  For testing if a system is Ubuntu, the following combined command with bash always gets extra BrokenPipeError on Ubuntu (14.04 to 15.10):

  # ( cat /etc/os-release /proc/version; lsb_release -is ) | grep -iq Ubuntu 
  Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>
  BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

  While the return code is correct:
  # ( cat /etc/os-release /proc/version; lsb_release -is ) | grep -iq Ubuntu && echo It-is-Ubuntu
  Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'>
  BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
  It-is-Ubuntu

  It may work well if with slight changes for the command:
  # ( cat /etc/os-release /proc/version; lsb_release -is ) | grep -i Ubuntu
  NAME="Ubuntu"
  ... ...
  # ( cat /etc/os-release /proc/version; lsb_release -is ) | grep -iq UbuntuW
  # ( cat /etc/os-release /proc/version; sleep 1; echo =; lsb_release -is ) | grep -iq Ubuntu
  # cat /etc/os-release /proc/version | grep -iq Ubuntu
  # (lsb_release -is) | grep -iq Ubuntu

  *** Ubuntu Platform Info ***
  # uname -a
  Linux ubt1510J2 4.2.0-12-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 28 16:50:34 UTC 2015 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

  # dpkg -l bash grep
  ||/ Name                              Version               Architecture          Description
  +++-=================================-=====================-=====================-=========================
  ii  bash                              4.3-14ubuntu1         ppc64el               GNU Bourne Again SHell
  ii  grep                              2.21-2                ppc64el               GNU grep, egrep and fgrep

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