It turns out that dmidecode has had its boundary moved up 2.8 for saucy. This does not fix the issue but makes it much much less likely to be hit in saucy release images at least.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to dmidecode in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1236233 Title: BIOS that SMIBIOS is not fuly supported by dmidecode causes image autmatic installation fail Status in OEM Priority Project: New Status in OEM Priority Project precise series: New Status in OEM Priority Project saucy series: New Status in “dmidecode” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Image: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS The suffix of hostname is too long and makes ubiqutiy automatic installation failed because suffix contains the warring message of dmidecode. Here is the error message in /var/log/installer/debug when installtion is failed. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-usersetup.py", line 394, in info_loop self.hostname_error(make_error_string(self.controller, errors)) File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-usersetup.py", line 69, in make_error_string return "\n".join([controller.get_string(error) for error in errors]) TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, NoneType found In automation installtion, ubiquity uses product name from BIOS as hostname suffix by parsing dmidecode output, but if a SMBIOS version is large thatn the version dmidecode supported, the output of `dmidecode -s system-product-name` or `dmidecode -s system-version` contains the following warring message, so that hostname suffix is invalid. The warring message is ```` # SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.7 are not # fully supported by this version of dmidecode. ```` **** Additional information: ubiquity package version: ii ubiquity 2.10.26 Ubuntu live CD installer ii ubiquity-casper 1.315.1 Configuration hooks for live installer ii ubiquity-frontend-gtk 2.10.26 GTK+ frontend for Ubiquity live installer ii ubiquity-plugin-apt-setup 1.1 Ubiquity plugin - apt-setup ii ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu 58.2 Ubiquity slideshow for Ubuntu ii ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork 2.10.26 Ubuntu artwork for Ubiquity live installer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/1236233/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
