The entire section "/sys/devices/virtual/dmi" is missing on ppc. [root@sulaco ~]# LANG=C smoltSendProfile -p Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/smoltSendProfile", line 152, in <module> profile = smolt.get_profile() File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 1415, in get_profile return Hardware() File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 1004, in Hardware _hardware_instance = _Hardware() File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 591, in __init__ self.host = Host() File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 306, in __init__ self.systemVendor = cat('/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/sys_vendor')[0].strip() File "/usr/share/smolt/client/devicelist.py", line 76, in cat fd = open(file, 'r') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/sys_vendor' [root@sulaco ~]# [root@sulaco ~]# LANG=C ls -l /sys/devices/virtual/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 adb drwxr-xr-x. 30 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 bdi drwxr-xr-x. 26 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 block drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 0 Apr 10 13:42 drm drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 graphics drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 input drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 mem drwxr-xr-x. 14 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 misc drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 net drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 raw drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 sound drwxr-xr-x. 71 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 tty drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 usbmon drwxr-xr-x. 18 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 vc drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 0 Apr 10 13:41 vtconsole [root@sulaco ~]#
dmi is also missing on EFI systems - which I guess is even more important to support than ppc.
Patch proposed on bug 727518
I think this is a F16 bug, F18 or rawhide don't include smolt anymore
Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.