Bug 128673

Summary: dmidecode on IBM eServer 325 hangs and stops other things from running
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Shafer Stockton <shafer>
Component: kernel-utilsAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 3.0CC: dhoward, jparadis, pfrields
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Description Shafer Stockton 2004-07-27 20:18:14 UTC
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Description of problem:
If I run dmidecode it outputs:

# dmidecode 2.2
SMBIOS 2.33 present.
42 structures occupying 1312 bytes.
Table at 0xFBF7C000.

The no other output. I can then establish another ssh session, but as
soon as a execute a command that command just stops and returns nothing. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run dmidecode on eServer 325
2. establish another login and run a command
3.
    

Expected Results:  I would hope that dmidecode would work or at least
tell me my machine is unsupported and not cause problems with starting
new commands.

Additional info:

As you can imagine this is kind of hard to debug without being able to
run new commands. I have a machine that isn't in production so I can
experiment if there is something to do that can be recommended.

Comment 2 Don Howard 2005-05-26 21:42:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112355 ***