Bug #1699
closed
Update fail from 1.2.3 to 2.0-RC3 if umlaute are used in descriptions
Added by Jens Kuehnel almost 13 years ago.
Updated almost 9 years ago.
Description
If umlaut like äöü are used in the description somewhere like FW-rules the update from 1.2.3-release to 2.0-RC3 hangs during 1st reboot to 2.0 with the errormessage "Network interface mismatch -- Running interface assignment option".
If you remove the special characters and than do a upgrade and change it back again, everything works.
If this is not fixed, please at least put it into the readme file.
Tested it with update from 1.2.3-RELEASE to both:
pfSense-Full-Update-2.0-RC3-i386-20110719-2331.tgz
pfSense-Full-Update-2.0-RC3-i386-20110621-1542.tgz
Same result.
- Status changed from New to Rejected
They were not supported in 1.2.3, count yourself lucky it didn't blow up on you earlier. This is a known issue, not much of a workaround either because the XML parser is tossing the input out - you have invalid XML, that was allowed only by a lack of input validation on the old box and a less strict XML parser.
Could you at least added this to the "known problems" or the README file for the update.
It worked in 1.2.3 and will bite you in the a** during the update. Took me 2 days to find it.
It's been mentioned in dozens of forum threads and on the mailing list, and elsewhere. I'm not sure if it's on the doc wiki. I can check and add notes to the upgrade guide.
Note added: (broken link)
Just added a "Pre-2.0 Upgrade Check" package for 1.2.x that will flag such things, though it can't be done automatically as part of the upgrade process, it's there for people to use to help avoid such problems.
- Target version deleted (
2.0)
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