This bug has been copied from bug #618250 and has been proposed to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).
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 Latin-1 and UTF-8 character sets in the hardware name rendered the system unable to register to both Red Hat Network and Red Hat Network Satellite Server. This error has been fixed, and the system registration now works as expected.
Verified. Used reproducer from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618250#c9 ------------------- # PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/rhn python -c "from up2date_client import hardware; from pprint import pprint; pprint(hardware.Hardware())" ... ... { 'bus': u'pci', 'class': 'OTHER', 'desc': u'Intel Corporation|80332 [Dobson signs:\xa9\x0c\x0e\xae\x01\x12\x10] I/O processor (A-Segment Bridge) ', 'detached': 0, 'driver': 'unknown', 'pciType': 1 } ... ... # rpm -q rhnlib rhn-client-tools rhnlib-2.5.22-3.el5_5.1 rhn-client-tools-0.4.20-33.el5_5.4 # rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=... --username=... --password=... --force ------------------- Passed, machine registered without any error nor traceback on client/server side.
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-2010-0790.html