Release Notes
and title may appear in random characters. This issue is caused by
an incorrect encoding in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 4)
Simplified Chinese operating system. To fix this issue, access and
modify the current encoding settings by performing the following
steps:
1. Open a command terminal.
2. Type "locale" and press <Enter>.
The following output appears.
LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="zh_CN.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
3. If the values include "zh_CN.UTF-8", no changes are required.
If the values do not include "zh_CN.UTF-8", go to step 4.
4. Navigate to the “/etc/sysconfig/i18n” file.
5. In the file, apply the following changes:
Current entry:
LANG="zh_CN.GB18030"
SUPPORTED="zh_CN.GB18030:zh_CH.GB2312:zh_CN:zh"
Updated entry:
LANG="zh_CN.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="zh_CN.UTF-8:zh_CN.GB18030:zh_CH.GB2312:zh_CN:zh"
6. Log out and then login to the operating system.
7. Relaunch the DRAC 5.
When you switch from any other language to the Simplified Chinese
language, ensure that this fix is still valid. If not, repeat the
procedure. (53205)
* The Linux operating system mouse settings are used to control the
mouse arrow in the DRAC 5 Console Redirection screen. If the user or
the Linux operating system (Red Hat or Novell) changes the default
mouse settings, there will be a mouse synchronization problem.
* Closing the DRAC 5 GUI from a Microsoft Internet Explorer using
the close button ("x") on the top right corner of the browser
may generate an application error. To fix this issue, download the
latest Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer from the
Microsoft Support website located at “support.microsoft.com.”
See Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB835193 for more information.
* When using Microsoft Active Directory credentials to log into
the DRAC 5 GUI, the GUI supports passwords with a maximum length of
256 characters. However, Active Directory supports passwords with a
maximum length of 127 characters. For more information about Active