Why are these system binaries not installed in /usr/sbin when they cannot be run as normal user? $ getSystemId Libsmbios: 0.13.10 Error getting the System ID : Could not instantiate SMBIOS table. Error getting the Service Tag : Could not instantiate SMBIOS table. Error getting the Product Name: Could not instantiate SMBIOS table. Error getting the BIOS Version: Could not instantiate SMBIOS table. Error getting the Vendor : Could not instantiate SMBIOS table. Is Dell: 0 $ sudo getSystemId Libsmbios: 0.13.10 System ID: 0x014A Service Tag: D42D Express Service Code: 424242 Product Name: PowerEdge 1750 BIOS Version: A12 Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation Is Dell: 1
I don't think, there is much I can bug triage here, so ASSIGNing.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
getSystemId is moved to /usr/sbin in the libsmbios 2.2 series, now built and pending for rawhide once Fedora 11 is released and rawhide composes from dist-f12.
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Resolved in libsmbios-2.2.16-2.1.fc11 in Fedora 11 and later.