Leapp precheck fails on Alma8 to Alma9 with "Actor xorgdrvfacts8to9 has crashed"

I’ve run into an issue with the preupgrade failing with one error, and have not been able to find a solution.

2025-05-29 10:09:40.89  ERROR    PID: 29837 leapp.workflow.FactsCollection: Actor xorgdrvfacts8to9 has crashed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/repository/actor_definition.py", line 75, in _do_run
    actor_instance.run(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/actors/__init__.py", line 316, in run
    self.process(*args)
  File "/etc/leapp/repos.d/system_upgrade/el8toel9/actors/xorgdrvfact/actor.py", line 21, in process
    xorg_logs = get_xorg_logs_from_journal()
  File "/etc/leapp/repos.d/system_upgrade/el8toel9/actors/xorgdrvfact/libraries/xorgdriverlib.py", line 31, in get_xorg_logs_from_journal
    output = run(['/usr/bin/journalctl', '/usr/libexec/Xorg', '-o', 'cat', '-b', '0'], split=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/libraries/stdlib/__init__.py", line 185, in run
    stdin=stdin, env=env, encoding=encoding)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/libraries/stdlib/call.py", line 199, in _call
    **extra
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/libraries/stdlib/call.py", line 69, in _multiplex
    linebufs[fd] += decoders[fd].decode(read)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 73: invalid start byte

any ideas?