Bug 2136924

Summary:	rteval traceback on arm with python3-dmidecode.py installed
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	John Kacur <jkacur>
Component:	rteval	Assignee:	John Kacur <jkacur>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Waylon Cude <wcude>
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Version:	9.2	CC:	bhu, mstowell, qzhao, rt-maint, williams
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Last Closed:	2023-05-09 07:18:14 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description John Kacur 2022-10-21 20:46:10 UTC

Description of problem:

root@hpe-apollo-cn99xx-14-vm-28 rteval]# ./rteval-cmd -d10s
** DMI WARNING ** /sys/firmware/efi/systab: SMBIOS entry point missing
got system topology: 1 node system (4 cores per node)
rteval run on 5.19.16-200.fc36.aarch64 started at Fri Oct 21 16:11:51 2022
started 3 loads on 4 cores 
started measurement threads on 4 cores
Run duration: 10.0 seconds
stopping run at Fri Oct 21 16:13:26 2022
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/src/rteval/./rteval-cmd", line 402, in <module>
    ec = rteval.Measure()
  File "/root/src/rteval/rteval/__init__.py", line 286, in Measure
    self._report(measure_start, self.__rtevcfg.xslt_report)
  File "/root/src/rteval/rteval/rtevalReport.py", line 76, in _report
    self.__xmlreport.AppendXMLnodes(self._sysinfo.MakeReport())
  File "/root/src/rteval/rteval/sysinfo/__init__.py", line 69, in MakeReport
    report_n.addChild(dmi.DMIinfo.MakeReport(self))
  File "/root/src/rteval/rteval/sysinfo/dmi.py", line 111, in MakeReport
    dmiqry = xmlout.convert_libxml2_to_lxml_doc(self.__dmixml.QuerySection('all'))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/dmidecode.py", line 64, in QuerySection
    ret = libxml2.xmlDoc( _obj = xmlapi(query_type='s',
RuntimeError: [src/dmidecodemodule.c:331] Error decoding DMI data

** COLLECTED WARNINGS **
/sys/firmware/efi/systab: SMBIOS entry point missing
** END OF WARNINGS **

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run rteval on arm
2. make sure python3-dmidecode is installed

Comment 1 John Kacur 2022-10-21 20:51:25 UTC

workaround remove python3-dmidecode
dnf remove python3-dmidecode

Note, testing on Fedora, it is not clear to me whether this package is available on rhel at this moment.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-09 07:18:14 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 (rteval 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-2023:2149