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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 Description of problem: When I run sensors-detect, it complains that dmidecode is missing and that, without it, it can't tell whether my machine is an IBM that could self-destruct. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lm_sensors-2.6.5-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run sensors-detect without dmidecode installed. Actual Results: This warning appeared, among other sensors-detect output: ---cut here--- Could not find dmidecode, which should have been installed with lm_sensors. Runing dmidecode would help us determining your system vendor, which allows safer operations. Please provide one of the following: /usr/local/sbin/dmidecode /usr/sbin/dmidecode You can still go on, but you are encouraged to fix the problem first. IF THIS IS AN IBM THINKPAD, PRESS CTRL-C NOW! IBM Thinkpads have a severely broken i2c/SMBus implementation, just scanning the bus will break your Thinkpad forever! If this is a non-Thinkpad IBM, we still suggest you press CTRL+C. We have had users reporting system breakage on other IBM systems as well. ---cut here--- Expected Results: I wasn't expecting to be told that another piece of software (dmidecode) should have been installed already. In that case, shouldn't the lm_sensors package have a dependency to enforce this? Additional info:
lm_sensors now requires kernel-utils which contains the latest and greates dmidecode. Read ya, Phil