ocsinventory-agent sends a invalid report to the server

[Sergio Soto]

Binary package hint: ocsinventory-agent

The pakcage is:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/ocsinventory-agent

the version:
root@myhost:~# dpkg -l|grep ocsinventory
ii ocsinventory-agent 2:1.1.1-2

The ubuntu version:
root@myhost:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

The apache error log:
root@ocsinventory-server:~# tail /var/log/apache2
[Wed Apr 20 12:21:00 2011] [error] [client 10.227.21.224] :1995: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !\nBytes: 0xF1 0x6F 0x6E 0x20\n <COMMENTS>Ca\xf1on de Red Virtual</COMMENTS>\n ^\n at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/LibXML/SAX/Parser.pm line 31\n

The problem is in the encoding of the client. The "\xf1" char is the letter "ñ", that corresponds with the application "Cañon de Red Virtual"

I try installing the version 1:0.0.9.2repack1 of the package and it works right. The report is sent and the apache server doesn't crash.

[Eric Seigne (eric-seigne)]

Hello all,
here is a dirty workaround (in my case):

edit /usr/share/perl5/Ocsinventory/Agent/Backend/OS/Generic/Packaging/Deb.pm

replace
         'COMMENTS' => $4,

with
         'COMMENTS' => '',

and it could work ... but there is no "comments" in software inventory ... in my case that's less important than "no inventory at all"

Éric

[Cédric Dufour (cdufour-keyword-ubuntu-086000)]

Personally, I have circumvented this bug by a just-a-little-less-dirty workaround (see attached patch).
It will only affect fields/data that contain non-UTF-8 character(s) and just strip those from the field rather than suppressing the entire field.
Hope this helps.
Cédric

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[Cédric Dufour (cdufour-keyword-ubuntu-086000)]

Forget my previously-posted patch. It was a bit too aggressive on the character substitution and led to other errors in similar situations.

The newly attached patch should solve this.

Sorry for the trouble and cheers