Created attachment 626316 [details] After entering a System Name: "Foo Bar", firstboot hangs on Registering spinner. Description of problem: During the firstboot workflow, if you supply an invalid "System Name:" value (e.g "Foo Bar" on the Subscription Registration credentials panel, then you will get an error dialog as shown in the attached screenshot. Pressing "OK" on the error dialog leaves you hanging on the Registering spinner. Since the Back/Forward buttons are disabled while the spinner is busy, the user is stuck. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@jsefler-rhel59 ~]# rpm -q subscription-manager-firstboot subscription-manager-firstboot-1.0.22-1.el5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: described above
Additional Info: List of characters that can not be used in the System Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677405#c1 plus white space and greater than 250 characters
and cannot begin with a # character
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Fixed in master with: commit e99938f821a9bc4ac78eeba670854e8e487b3de5 Author: Adrian Likins <alikins> Date: Thu Oct 11 13:53:14 2012 -0400 865954: Return to creds screen if consumer name is invalid When we register a consumer, if the consumer name is in an invalid format, we were raising an error, but handling it poorly. Now we send the user back to the credentials screen (where the consumer name field is). merge to 5.9 pending
In 5.9 commit cbe824bd460e8811f89f0ca89e15e49df2788463 Author: Adrian Likins <alikins> Date: Thu Oct 11 13:53:14 2012 -0400 865954: Return to creds screen if consumer name is invalid When we register a consumer, if the consumer name is in an invalid format, we were raising an error, but handling it poorly. Now we send the user back to the credentials screen (where the consumer name field is). (should land in 1.0.23)
Created attachment 628834 [details] clicking OK on an invalid system name error dialog now returns to the credentials panel Verifying Version... [root@jsefler-rhel59 ~]# rpm -q subscription-manager-firstboot subscription-manager-firstboot-1.0.23-1.el5
Batch change of verified bugs which must have missed making the errata.