[Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4/5] [RHN Satellite 5.3] System registration fails when non-xmlrpc-compliant chars are returned by dmidecode
Issue
- registration attempts fail with "Internal Server Error"
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registration succeeds if the hardware profile is not sent, e.g.,
# rhnreg_ks --profilename <profile name> --username <user> --password <password> --nohardware
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.3.x
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