Bug 1981868

Summary:	dmidecode returns a bogus warning "SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.7 are not supported" ver is 2.3
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Mark Simmons <msimmons>
Component:	python-dmidecode	Assignee:	Lichen Liu <lichliu>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jiri Dluhos <jdluhos>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	9.0	CC:	bhu, jdluhos, ruyang, rvr
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	---	Flags:	jdluhos: needinfo+ pm-rhel: mirror+
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Fixed In Version:	python-dmidecode-3.12.3-2.el9	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2023-05-09 08:25:01 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Comment 5 Coiby 2021-11-18 07:08:21 UTC

Hi Mark,

The problem occurs because currently python-dmidecode only supports SMBIOS 2. Note `dmidecode -s bios-version` outputs the version of BIOS and  dmidecode actually shows "SMBIOS 3.1 present" for this machine. The fix requires making python-dmidecode
 support SMBIOS 3. I'll give an estimation about when this can be fixed after evaluating the workload.

Comment 9 Jiri Dluhos 2023-02-20 20:50:41 UTC

I have ran the test at a machine with SMBIOS lower and higher than 2.4 (process as per description, plus trying to run dmidecode manually and observing the results); it seems it works well, but please note that I have failed to reproduce the original issue; i.e. the new python3-dmidecode works well but the original seemed to work, too.
I believe we can say VERIFIED so that we can finish this to RHEL9.2.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-09 08:25:01 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 (python-dmidecode bug fix and enhancement update), 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-2023:2562