Error when starting Steampipe

[sapg]

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I installed Steampipe using brew on MacOS 10.15.7 (Catalina).

Initially, it worked, I could run steampipe query but after I tried installing and using a dashboard (which never loaded, it looked like it was loading something but it never appeared) I can't run steampipe query anymore, I get this error:

Error: error acquiring database connection, failed to create introspection tables: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x96 (SQLSTATE 22021)

Steampipe version (steampipe -v) 0.15.4

To reproduce As above.

Expected behavior I was hoping to do some Steampipe queries and I was hoping to use the AWS Thrifty dashboard.

[sapg]

I got a dashboard to load but I still get a database error, albeit a different one.

[kaidaguerre]

@sapg sorry for delay in following this up. A few questions:

• if you run steampipe query from an empty folder does it work?
• you say you installed a dashboard - which mod did you install? It is failing when you run steampipe query from within the mod folder?

[e-gineer]

As background, once you have a mod.sp file in a directory, Steampipe will recursively search for *.sp and *.sql files from that point. So, perhaps one of your files has invalid UTF8?