def METHOD_NAME(cmd, no_output, chk_err=True):
    """
    Wrapper for subprocess.check_output.
    Execute 'cmd'.  Returns return code and STDOUT,
    trapping expected exceptions.
    Reports exceptions to Error if chk_err parameter is True
    """
    def check_output(no_output, *popenargs, **kwargs):
        r"""Backport from subprocess module from python 2.7"""
        if 'stdout' in kwargs:
            raise ValueError(
                'stdout argument not allowed, it will be overridden.')
        if no_output:
            out_file = None
        else:
            out_file = subprocess.PIPE
        process = subprocess.Popen(stdout=out_file, *popenargs, **kwargs)
        output, unused_err = process.communicate()
        retcode = process.poll()
        if retcode:
            cmd = kwargs.get("args")
            if cmd is None:
                cmd = popenargs[0]
            raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
        return output
    # Exception classes used by this module.
    class CalledProcessError(Exception):
        def __init__(self, returncode, cmd, output=None):
            self.returncode = returncode
            self.cmd = cmd
            self.output = output
        def __str__(self):
            return "Command '%s' returned non-zero exit status %d" \
                   % (self.cmd, self.returncode)
    try:
        output = check_output(no_output, cmd, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True)
    except CalledProcessError, e:
        if chk_err:
            print('CalledProcessError.  Error Code is ' +
                  str(e.returncode), file=sys.stdout)
            LG().Log('ERROR', 'CalledProcessError.  Error Code is ' + str(e.returncode))
            print(
                'CalledProcessError.  Command string was ' + e.cmd, file=sys.stdout)
            LG().Log('ERROR', 
                'CalledProcessError.  Command string was ' + e.cmd)
            print('CalledProcessError.  Command result was ' +
                  (e.output[:-1]).decode('utf-8').encode('ascii', 'ignore'), file=sys.stdout)
            LG().Log('ERROR', 'CalledProcessError.  Command result was ' +
                  (e.output[:-1]).decode('utf-8').encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
        if no_output:
            return e.returncode, None
        else:
            return e.returncode, e.output.decode('utf-8').encode('ascii', 'ignore')
    if no_output:
        return 0, None
    else:
        return 0, output.decode('utf-8').encode('ascii', 'ignore')