moby: "New state of 'nil' is invalid" when attaching to container, probably related to UTF-8

Output of docker version:

Client:
 Version:      1.11.0
 API version:  1.23
 Go version:   go1.5.4
 Git commit:   4dc5990
 Built:        Wed Apr 13 18:13:28 2016
 OS/Arch:      windows/amd64

Server:
 Version:      1.11.0
 API version:  1.23
 Go version:   go1.5.4
 Git commit:   4dc5990
 Built:        Wed Apr 13 18:38:59 2016
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Output of docker info:

Containers: 1
 Running: 1
 Paused: 0
 Stopped: 0
Images: 1
Server Version: 1.11.0
Storage Driver: aufs
 Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
 Backing Filesystem: extfs
 Dirs: 7
 Dirperm1 Supported: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
 Volume: local
 Network: bridge null host
Kernel Version: 4.2.0-27-generic
Operating System: Ubuntu 15.10
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 1
Total Memory: 488.9 MiB
Name: digitalocean
ID: AFWT:NTMS:3WR4:VOPE:JHGQ:D46Z:GR5R:GZ6N:4FUO:OUQP:A5JK:3JGG
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug mode (client): false
Debug mode (server): false
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
WARNING: No swap limit support
Labels:
 provider=digitalocean

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Be on Windows. Have an active machine. Then run:

docker run -it ubuntu:14.04 bash
apt-get update
apt-get install -y mc
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
mc

Describe the results you received: < / New state of 'nil' is invalid. and the connection is closed.

When re-attaching to the container, the same error happens.

Describe the results you expected: Connection stays open, interacting with Midnight Commander is possible.

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  • State: closed
  • Created 8 years ago
  • Reactions: 9
  • Comments: 27 (9 by maintainers)

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Redirecting to /dev/null (eg npm install > /dev/null) seems to be a workaround. Super annoying.

Windows 7, same bug here, solved it with CMD+R -> Git Bash -> eval $(docker-machine env default) -> docker attach [cont id] and all ok - looks like russian symbols to console.log made this issue