What were you trying to do that didn't work?

ostree admin status error: loading sysroot: Parsing deployment /ostree/boot.1/default/d5de1dbf48259566fe63c853f188bbf5602e2cca665ffe2bf3f0c22141b279e9/0 in stateroot 'default': Invalid UTF-8

What is the impact of this issue to you?

all of ostree/rpm-ostree command didn't work

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

ostree-2025.2-1.el9_6.x86_64

rpm-ostree-2025.6-5.el9_6.x86_64

How reproducible is this bug?: hit once

Steps to reproduce

1. no stable reproduced, I hit this issue when finish run a networking performance testing and restart system.
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update strace -f -o /run/ostree-strace ostree admin status && zstd /run/ostree-strace on attachment and sosreport.