Satellite API method system.getDetails() is failing with xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError after upgrading to Satellite 5.6
Issue
- Since upgrading to Satellite 5.6 our script using the system.getDetails API method is failing with the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./getDetails.py", line 12, in <module>
print sat.system.getDetails(key, 1000013342)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request
verbose=self.__verbose
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1253, in request
return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1387, in _parse_response
p.feed(response)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 601, in feed
self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: XML or text declaration not at start of entity: line 1, column 76
- The systemgroup.listSystems() API method is failing with a similar error
- Perl scripts using these methods fail with a similar error:
xml declaration not at start of external entity at line 1, column 76, byte 76 at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 187
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 5.6
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