Bug 107987

Summary: up2date --hardware fails on Toshiba Tecra 8100
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Bret McMillan <bretm>
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Version: 3.0CC: jjh
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Output of DMI on Supermicro X5DPI board none

Description Alexandre Oliva 2003-10-25 17:57:03 UTC 
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Description of problem:
It seems that up2date has its own copy of dmi-reading code, because even though
dmidecode succeeds, up2date --hardware prints:
Reading DMI info failed

Sure enough, strace reveals it's using an up2date-owned dmimodule.so library,
that fails in just the same way as the as pre-2.2 dmidecode did.

See bug 84723 for more on the dmidecode story.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
up2date-4.0.1-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run dmidecode
2.Run up2date --hardware on a Toshiba Tecra 8100 with latest BIOS updates.

Actual Results:  dmidecode succeeds, but up2date --hardware fails to read DMI info.

Expected Results:  I'd expected that, if one succeeded, so would the other.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jon. Hallett 2004-08-13 11:08:20 UTC 
Created attachment 102694 [details]
Output of DMI on Supermicro X5DPI board

I'm seeing the same problem with up2date on a dual processor Xeon box with a
Supermicro X5DPI mainboard.

up2date --hardware does this:

[root@wren root]# up2date --hardware
Updating hardware profile...
Reading DMI info failed

The dmidecode command itself works fine (output attached), though there is a
field listed as <OUT OF SPEC>, which doesn't look right.

[root@wren root]# uname -a
Linux wren 2.4.21-4.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 3 17:52:56 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux
[root@wren root]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)
[root@wren root]# rpm -qa | grep up2date
up2date-4.2.33-1
up2date-gnome-4.2.33-1
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 19:33:41 UTC 
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since
this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed.
 
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