Bug 624379

Summary: error sending hardware profile when non-xmlrpc-compliant chars are returned by dmidecode
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Miroslav Suchý <msuchy>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 4.8CC: ahumbe, cperry, dmair, jhutar, jwest, klamb, marcobillpeter, mosvald, mpoole, msuchy, mzazrivec, plyons, pm-eus, pnovotny, psklenar, tao, vgaikwad, xdmoon
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, the presence of less commonly used characters from the Latin-1 character set in the hardware name rendered the system unable to register to both Red Hat Network (RHN) and Red Hat Network Satellite Server. This error has been fixed, and the system registration now works as expected.
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: 638981 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-10-07 08:43:58 UTC Type: ---
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On: 579830    
Bug Blocks: 638981, 638982    

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-08-16 08:39:44 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #579830 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Miroslav Suchý 2010-08-19 09:48:08 UTC
Commited in rev. 195358.

Comment 11 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-10-04 16:10:28 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, the presence of less commonly used characters from the Latin-1 character set in the hardware name rendered the system unable to register to both Red Hat Network (RHN) and Red Hat Network Satellite Server. This error has been fixed, and the system registration now works as expected.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2010-10-07 08:43:58 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0748.html