3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/cleanup-workdir b/scripts/cleanup-workdir
index fee464c31d..0b2cf99d78 100755
--- a/scripts/cleanup-workdir
+++ b/scripts/cleanup-workdir
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def run_command(cmd):
     if pipe.returncode != 0:
         print("Execute command '%s' failed." % cmd)
         sys.exit(1)
-    return output
+    return output.decode('utf-8')
 
 def get_cur_arch_dirs(workdir, arch_dirs):
     pattern = workdir + '/(.*?)/'
diff --git a/scripts/combo-layer b/scripts/combo-layer
index 36a8f5fa1e..eaa7f5adb8 100755
--- a/scripts/combo-layer
+++ b/scripts/combo-layer
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ def runcmd(cmd,destdir=None,printerr=True,out=None,env=None):
         raise e
 
     err.seek(0)
-    output = err.read()
+    output = err.read().decode('utf-8')
     logger.debug("output: %s" % output.replace(chr(0), '\\0'))
     return output
 
diff --git a/scripts/oe-selftest b/scripts/oe-selftest
index b1ecf7f322..df76f94f7a 100755
--- a/scripts/oe-selftest
+++ b/scripts/oe-selftest
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ def coverage_setup(coverage_source, coverage_include, coverage_omit):
     import subprocess
     builddir = os.environ.get("BUILDDIR")
     pokydir = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
-    curcommit= subprocess.check_output(["git", "--git-dir", os.path.join(pokydir, ".git"), "rev-parse", "HEAD"])
+    curcommit= subprocess.check_output(["git", "--git-dir", os.path.join(pokydir, ".git"), "rev-parse", "HEAD"]).decode('utf-8')
     coveragerc = "%s/.coveragerc" % builddir
     data_file = "%s/.coverage." % builddir
     data_file += datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%dT%H%M%S')