Bug 596133 - Assertion when decoding DMI type 0x08 on pogolinux-1.rhts.eng.rdu.redhat.com
Summary: Assertion when decoding DMI type 0x08 on pogolinux-1.rhts.eng.rdu.redhat.com
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: python-dmidecode
Version: 5.5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Roman Rakus
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Depends On: 583867 596264 621146 1058872
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-26 11:46 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2018-11-14 16:12 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: python-dmidecode-3.10.13-1.el5_5.1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-09-13 07:20:51 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2010:0695 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE python-dmidecode bug fix update 2010-09-13 07:20:43 UTC

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-05-26 11:46:29 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #583867 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Roman Rakus 2010-08-03 13:57:18 UTC
Fixed in python-dmidecode-3.10.13-1.el5_5.1

Comment 8 Petr Sklenar 2010-09-07 07:46:55 UTC
Hi,

Looking at output from rhn-client-tools - which takes data from python-dmidecode, there are these info on pogolinux-2***:

DMI Info
Vendor: 	To Be Filled By O.E.M.
System: 	To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Product: 	To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Asset Tag: 	To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Chassis: 	To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Board: 	To be filled by O.E.M.

Other machines return more informative data.
What should return pogolinux from python-dmidecode?

Comment 9 David Sommerseth 2010-09-07 08:07:46 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> Hi,
> 
> Looking at output from rhn-client-tools - which takes data from
> python-dmidecode, there are these info on pogolinux-2***:
> 
> DMI Info
> Vendor:  To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> System:  To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> Product:  To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> Asset Tag:  To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> Chassis:  To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> Board:  To be filled by O.E.M.
> 
> Other machines return more informative data.
> What should return pogolinux from python-dmidecode?

It should probably return exactly what you are seeing.  Those strings are taken out of the DMI tables directly.  I'm even guessing you'll find these strings in clear text in the DMI dump from this box, if you use strings or hexdump -C on it.

I presume the reason is that this box is a so called 'white label box', kind of like a prototype and not a typical mass-produced sales model.  The BIOS on such boxes are therefore not "complete", but "complete enough" to boot a system to be able to test it out.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2010-09-13 07:20:51 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0695.html


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