Fedora Extras Package Build Report 2007-04-08

[Michael E Brown]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:30:26AM -0400, Sean Stangl wrote:
> 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.
--
Michael