When i open opennebula-sunstone UI i am getting this error
Unexpected error executing code for particular method, detected by Xmlrpc-c method registry code. Method did not fail; rather, it did not complete at all. 191478-byte supposed UTF-8 string is not valid UTF-8. UTF-8 string contains a character not in the Basic Multilingual Plane (first byte 0xfffffff0)
Any suggesstions?
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mysql>
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ‘character_set%’;
±-------------------------±---------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
±-------------------------±---------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
±-------------------------±---------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ‘collation%’;
±---------------------±------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
±---------------------±------------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_server | latin1_swedish_ci |
±---------------------±------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> Ctrl-C – exit!
Aborted
rpm -qa | grep mysql
mysql-community-server-5.6.51-2.el7.x86_64
mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch
mysql-community-libs-5.6.51-2.el7.x86_64
mysql-community-common-5.6.51-2.el7.x86_64
mysql-community-client-5.6.51-2.el7.x86_64
brunorro
(Bruno Rodríguez)
December 16, 2025, 11:47am
3
Hello,
It looks like there may be a emoji or similar char on your database. You should be able to do a onedb backup, uncompress it and grep it with this regex to detect it
grep -P "[\x{10000}-\x{1FFFF}]" DB_BACKUP_FILE
Cheers
system
(system)
Closed
January 15, 2026, 11:48am
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