Bug 1401905

Summary: dmidecode failing with rhel7.3
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Marcel Kolaja <mkolaja>
Component: dmidecodeAssignee: Petr Oros <poros>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Mike Gahagan <mgahagan>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 7.3CC: framsay, framsay, gbeshers, gbeshers, gcase, jherrman, jkachuck, jszczype, lknipper, mgahagan, poros, randerso, rja, tee
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: OtherQA, Regression, ZStream
Target Release: 7.3   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: dmidecode-3.0-2.1.el7_3 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, the dmidecode utilities failed to extract hardware information from the BIOS or the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). This update fixes the underlying source code, and dmidecode now work as expected.
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Clone Of: 1384195 Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-04-12 12:31:13 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1384195    
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Description Marcel Kolaja 2016-12-06 11:37:19 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #1384195 and has been proposed
to be backported to 7.3 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 George Beshers 2016-12-22 16:16:02 UTC
Getting ready for OnBoarding first week of January.

Comment 6 Russ Anderson 2017-01-02 22:24:33 UTC
Any ETA on when the 7.3-z dmidecode fix will be released?

Comment 7 Gary Case 2017-01-03 15:07:30 UTC
Hi Russ,

I'll send you mail with an update on the release date.

-Gary

Comment 9 Mike Gahagan 2017-02-17 16:41:50 UTC
SGI found issues with this package and the 7.4 bug has been marked as FailedQA, marking this one as failed as well.


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384195#c20

Comment 10 Petr Oros 2017-02-28 08:24:12 UTC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384195#c23
-> Not a bug in dmidecode, this bugzilla should be released.

Thanks,
-Petr

Comment 11 Joseph Kachuck 2017-03-02 19:32:28 UTC
Hello SGI,
Please download the test package from:
http://people.redhat.com/jkachuck/.1401905/

Thank You
Joe Kachuck

Comment 12 Frank Ramsay (HPE) 2017-03-03 16:19:22 UTC
This looks good to me.

# dmidecode -s chassis-type
Rack Mount Chassis

Comment 15 Joseph Kachuck 2017-03-17 16:01:12 UTC
Hello,
This should make batch update 4.

Thank You
Joe Kachuck

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-12 12:31:13 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:0904