Jira (FACT-165) virtual - dmidecode: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted

[Jason Antman (JIRA)]

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Jason Antman commented on an issue   Re: virtual - dmidecode: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted The original requester (redmine) attached a patch which became https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/488. That was closed in favor of https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/510 opened by Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (just added him as a watcher on this ticket) 5 months ago. Last update on that PR was by Adrien Thebo who closed the PR 3 months ago: "summary: this has been open for two months, and Daniel has pointed out that we can't trust the permissions of /dev/mem, so we would need to parse the output of stderr to actually check for failures. Because of this I'm going to close this pull request for the time being. If the next actions can be addressed or there is new information related to this pull request, you can submit a new pull request or ask us to reopen this pull request." As far as I can tell, this is still waiting on those changes to be made. Perhaps Jasper is still interested in following up his previous PR and making the changes? Add Comment   Facter / FACT-165 virtual - dmidecode: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted Inside LXC Containers the system can't open /dev/mem. The virtual.rb fact runs demidecode and does not throw error output into /dev/null: facter virtual /dev/mem: Operation not permitted Please see attached patch to move error output of dmidecode to /dev/null. This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.