Bug 1272137 - Can't view bug with malformed UTF8 in comments
Summary: Can't view bug with malformed UTF8 in comments
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Bugzilla
Classification: Community
Component: User Interface
Version: 4.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: 4.4
Assignee: Jeff Fearn 🐞
QA Contact: Rony Gong 🔥
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1272133 1272685 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-15 14:39 UTC by James Boyle
Modified: 2025-10-16 23:42 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-10-21 06:27:25 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
virt-manager.log that has the offending product string (3.10 KB, text/plain)
2015-10-15 14:40 UTC, James Boyle
no flags Details


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1272685 0 high CLOSED Searching for some bugs, eg. 1272133, results in a perl Wrap error 2025-10-16 23:42:13 UTC

Internal Links: 1272685

Description James Boyle 2015-10-15 14:39:33 UTC
Description of problem:
I was trying to submit a bug related to libvirt and virt-manager.  A USB KVM device our company uses has a product description with malformed UTF characters.  When pasting the virt-manager.log output, which contains the offending string, bugzilla also crashes (500 Internal Server Error).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
The current version of bugzilla in use by RedHat


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Include the USB product description from the attached file.  click submit.  

Actual results:
500 Internal Server Error.  Could not submit bug with the offending text in the Description field.

Expected results:
Should be able to submit the bug


Additional info:
see bugs 1272125 and 1272121

Comment 1 James Boyle 2015-10-15 14:40:50 UTC
Created attachment 1083297 [details]
virt-manager.log that has the offending product string

i think this bug may have forked into two like my previous failed submission attempt.  Neat-o.

Comment 2 Rony Gong 🔥 2015-10-16 01:39:32 UTC
This bug also exist in upstream 5.0 and also exist in Bugzill which based on mysql.

undef error - Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /var/www/html/bugzilla/Bugzilla/Util.pm line 81.

Comment 5 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2015-10-19 01:06:25 UTC
The bug gets submitted, it can't be viewed though.

Comment 6 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2015-10-19 03:25:46 UTC
*** Bug 1272685 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Muhammad Tahir 2015-10-21 06:25:17 UTC
*** Bug 1272133 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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