Description of problem: When using the WebUI to edit configuration files, the entered configuration file is truncated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.0.1 How reproducible: Intermittent Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a configuration channel 2.From the Channel Overview screen, select 'Add Files' 3.On the 'Add Files' submenu, select 'Create file' 4.On the next screen, type a file name and then some file contents in the large textarea 5. Click the 'Create Configuration File' button Actual results: The saved file occasionally has the last few characters truncated. For example, in one of our config files we have: chage -d 0 root as the last line. This is always truncated to: chage -d 0 r Expected results: No truncation should occur Additional info: There is no proxy in this configuration and the browser is running on the satellite itself. This is happening with short files (<1K) Workaround is to add a comment as the last line of the file if possible as it does not matter if this is truncated.
OK, the culprit is the following line in the configuration file: /usr/sbin/usermod -p '$1$yñ1üµßIA$2HQp.OK2aS9lMt20ApKKI/' linux Without this line, we don't see any truncation.
That for sure is BZ#427569. The problem comes about by the use of UTF8 Characters in Configuration Files. This apparently was not foreseen in Satellite 5, but has been fixes in http://seg.rdu.redhat.com/scripts/hotfix/edit.pl?id=2489 Cheers, Michael.
Its definitely Bug 427569 - can close as a duplicate.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 427569 ***