Doctor gives 'Format Exception

[johnaaronrose]

In Terminal: flutter doctor gave:
[☠] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (the doctor check crashed)
✗ Due to an error, the doctor check did not complete. If the error message
below is not helpful, please let us know about this issue at
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues.
✗ FormatException: Unexpected extension byte (at offset 5)

flutter doctor -v

[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 2.8.1, on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS 5.13.0-27-generic,
    locale en_GB.UTF-8)
    • Flutter version 2.8.1 at /home/john/snap/flutter/common/flutter
    • Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
    • Framework revision 77d935af4d (5 weeks ago), 2021-12-16 08:37:33 -0800
    • Engine revision 890a5fca2e
    • Dart version 2.15.1

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 32.0.0)
    • Android SDK at /home/john/Android/Sdk
    • Platform android-32, build-tools 32.0.0
    • Java binary at: /snap/android-studio/115/android-studio/jre/bin/java
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.10+0-b96-7249189)
    • All Android licenses accepted.

[✓] Chrome - develop for the web
    • Chrome at google-chrome

[✓] Android Studio (version 2020.3)
    • Android Studio at /snap/android-studio/115/android-studio
    • Flutter plugin can be installed from:
      🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter
    • Dart plugin can be installed from:
      🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6351-dart
    • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.10+0-b96-7249189)

[☠] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (the doctor check crashed)
    ✗ Due to an error, the doctor check did not complete. If the error message
      below is not helpful, please let us know about this issue at
      https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues.
    ✗ FormatException: Unexpected extension byte (at offset 5)
    • #0      _Utf8Decoder.convertSingle
      (dart:convert-patch/convert_patch.dart:1789:7)
      #1      Utf8Decoder.convert (dart:convert/utf.dart:318:42)
      #2      InputStream.readString
      (package:archive/src/util/input_stream.dart:207:30)
      #3      new ZipDirectory.read
      (package:archive/src/zip/zip_directory.dart:40:30)
      #4      ZipDecoder.decodeBuffer
      (package:archive/src/zip_decoder.dart:19:30)
      #5      ZipDecoder.decodeBytes
      (package:archive/src/zip_decoder.dart:14:12)
      #6      IntelliJPlugins._findPluginXml
      (package:flutter_tools/src/intellij/intellij.dart:130:44)
      #7      IntelliJPlugins._readPackageVersion
      (package:flutter_tools/src/intellij/intellij.dart:141:40)
      #8      IntelliJPlugins.validatePackage
      (package:flutter_tools/src/intellij/intellij.dart:63:35)
      #9      IntelliJValidator.validate
      (package:flutter_tools/src/intellij/intellij_validator.dart:103:15)
      #10     asyncGuard.<anonymous closure>
      (package:flutter_tools/src/base/async_guard.dart:111:32)
      #11     asyncGuard.<anonymous closure>
      (package:flutter_tools/src/base/async_guard.dart:109:18)
      #12     _rootRun (dart:async/zone.dart:1428:13)
      #13     _CustomZone.run (dart:async/zone.dart:1328:19)
      #14     _runZoned (dart:async/zone.dart:1863:10)
      #15     runZonedGuarded (dart:async/zone.dart:1851:12)
      #16     runZoned (dart:async/zone.dart:1782:12)
      #17     asyncGuard (package:flutter_tools/src/base/async_guard.dart:109:3)
      #18     Doctor.startValidatorTasks
      (package:flutter_tools/src/doctor.dart:197:9)
      #19     Doctor.diagnose (package:flutter_tools/src/doctor.dart:301:47)
      #20     DoctorCommand.runCommand
      (package:flutter_tools/src/commands/doctor.dart:53:47)
      #21     FlutterCommand.verifyThenRunCommand
      (package:flutter_tools/src/runner/flutter_command.dart:1290:12)
      <asynchronous suspension>
      #22     FlutterCommand.run.<anonymous closure>
      (package:flutter_tools/src/runner/flutter_command.dart:1140:27)
      <asynchronous suspension>
      #23     AppContext.run.<anonymous closure>
      (package:flutter_tools/src/base/context.dart:150:19)
      <asynchronous suspension>
      #24     CommandRunner.runCommand (package:args/command_runner.dart:209:13)
      <asynchronous suspension>
      #25     FlutterCommandRunner.runCommand.<anonymous closure>
      (package:flutter_tools/src/runner/flutter_command_runner.dart:288:9)
      <asynchronous suspension>
      #26     AppContext.run.<anonymous closure>
      (package:flutter_tools/src/base/context.dart:150:19)
      <asynchronous suspension>
      #27     FlutterCommandRunner.runCommand
      (package:flutter_tools/src/runner/flutter_command_runner.dart:236:5)
      <asynchronous suspension>
      #28     run.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure>
      (package:flutter_tools/runner.dart:62:9)
      <asynchronous suspension>
      #29     AppContext.run.<anonymous closure>
      (package:flutter_tools/src/base/context.dart:150:19)
      <asynchronous suspension>
      #30     main (package:flutter_tools/executable.dart:94:3)
      <asynchronous suspension>


[✓] Connected device (2 available)
    • Android SDK built for x86 (mobile) • emulator-5554 • android-x86    •
      Android 11 (API 30) (emulator)
    • Chrome (web)                       • chrome        • web-javascript •
      Google Chrome 97.0.4692.99

! Doctor found issues in 1 category.

[danagbemava-nc]

Hi @johnaaronrose, this issue was previously reported in #94060 and has since been fixed. The fix is on master but it hasn't rolled out to stable yet. It should sometime in the future.

Closing as this has already been fixed.

Thank you

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