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John_Buchanan_1's avatar
John_Buchanan_1
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Jan 12, 2016

ASM policy import Error: Malformed XML: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Duplicate entry

When trying to re-import a policy I had exported (I turned off staging for all new signatures using search/replace function of my text editor), I run in to the following error:   Error: Malformed ...
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Arnaud_Lemaire's avatar
Arnaud_Lemaire
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Jan 15, 2016

Hello John,

 

if you did not edited the xml file (which could change some charater encoding) i would log a case to F5 support. from the last comment it seems you edited it, if i open a policy exported on a windows machine with notepad++ i can see that encoding is UTF-8 without BOM. test with another advanced editor to see if you did not change it during your edit.