After installing firmware-addon-dell on fc6 i686, yum immediately
crashes when called with any arguments, due to the dellsysidplugin:
$ yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 82, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 206, in getOptionsConfig
errorlevel=opts.errorlevel)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 141, in
doConfigSetup
self.plugins.run('init')
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 153, in
run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/dellsysidplugin.py", line 26, in init_hook
sysid = getSystemId()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/biosHdr.py", line 34, in
getSystemId
output = cmdFactory_getSystemId()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/biosHdr.py", line 27, in
cmdFactory_getSystemId
raise PermissionDenied("Failed to get System ID: %s" % output)
biosHdr.PermissionDenied: Failed to get System ID: Libsmbios: 0.13.5
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
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235621
Can you confirm which version of firmware-addon-dell that you have installed?
I believe that this was fixed somewhere along 1.2.8 or so. Current version is 1.2.11.
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Michael