Description of problem: libsmbios 2.2.26, the version currently shipped in EPEL, does not work with OpenManage 7.1. Dell is shipping 2.2.27 in their own repo and this does work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.2.26-3.el5 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install OMSA 7.1 with no packages overiding packages from EPEL. 2. Start OMSA. 3. Actual results: OMSA doesn't start. Expected results: OMSA does start. Additional info: The same apply to EL6. The issue has been discussed on linux-poweredge mailing list.
The issue is still current with OpenManage 7.3.1 repos. Can this be fixed please ?
Anyone ? Latest release is 2.2.28 and dates back to 2011, June 29th. It's available in Fedora, but EPEL is lagging behind.
(In reply to Xavier Bachelot from comment #2) > Anyone ? > Latest release is 2.2.28 and dates back to 2011, June 29th. It's available > in Fedora, but EPEL is lagging behind. Same issue was reported by Robert Scheck " the recent update of libsmbios in EPEL 7 from https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2015-7500/libsmbios-2.2.28-13.el7 breaks Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA): "dsm_om_shrsvc: DSM SA Shared Services cannot start on an unsupported system. See the Dell Systems Software Support Matrix for a list of supported systems." This happens because libsmbios-2.2.28-13.el7 replaces the same packages shipped by Dell OMSA (as third party packages) at OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-8.1.0-1518.RHEL7.x86_64_A00/linux/custom/RHEL7/Remote-Enablement/x86_64/smbios-utils-bin-2.2.27-4.4.1.el7.x86_64.rpm Somehow these two different libsmbios versions do not agree with each other about the result. Basically, this is easily reproducible: Dell server with RHEL or CentOS 7, install OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-8.1.0-1518.RHEL7.x86_64_A00, enable EPEL 7 and run a "yum update". Reboot the system and Dell OMSA is no longer up and running but the logs show the error message above. I understand that Dell OMSA is third party, but it would be great to have EPEL and Dell OMSA working together without any nasty repo excludes or any similar stuff. "
I have fixed it upstream. http://linux.dell.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/libsmbios.git/commit/?id=7f0779b2c71ff40ecc5c1d917c5391da824a80e3 Staging the fix for libsmbios-2.2.28-14
libsmbios-2.2.28-14.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2015-7882
Nice to see this years old bug being taking care of. I'm glad EL7 is being dealt with, but what about EL5 and EL6 ? Also, on a side note it might be nice to be able to use the system libs rather than bundling in OpenManage (say, the xerces lib that is causing trouble these days, but there are most probably others).
(In reply to Xavier Bachelot from comment #6) > Nice to see this years old bug being taking care of. I'm glad EL7 is being > dealt with, but what about EL5 and EL6 ? Ill be pushing the patch to other branches as well. I have been maintaining libsmbios upstream for over a year now. You can expect more updates to be made available on libsmbios + fedora. > Also, on a side note it might be nice to be able to use the system libs > rather than bundling in OpenManage (say, the xerces lib that is causing > trouble these days, but there are most probably others). Is there a BZ for this. More details on this will help...
libsmbios-2.2.28-14.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update libsmbios'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2015-7882
Fedora EPEL 5 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-03-31. Fedora EPEL 5 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 or Fedora EPEL, please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.
libsmbios-2.3.3-2.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-0ee1b08f7f