== SRU Justification ==
* Impact: users needing to upgrade DELL server's firmware to version
3.0.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS would not be able to do so due to parsing
issue.
* Fix:
The fix is a trivial parsing fix of one liner:
--
- ("biosVersion", ctypes.c_char * 3),
+ ("biosVersion", ctypes.c_uint8 * 3),
--
* Test case:
How to reproduce:
1. wget
http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bios-hdrs/system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0236_version_3.0.0/bios.hdr
2. smbios-rbu-bios-update --hdr-info=bios.hdr
Expected results:
No error messages, and a proper parse output from the bios.
Actual results:
Python traceback.
--
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/smbios-rbu-bios-update", line 185, in <module>
sys.exit( main() )
File "/usr/sbin/smbios-rbu-bios-update", line 138, in main
dumpHdrFileInfo(h)
File "<libsmbios_c._peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping
libsmbios_c.rbu_hdr.dumpHdrFileInfo at 0x0184C6E0>", line 3, in dumpHdrFileInfo
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libsmbios_c/trace_decorator.py", line
98, in trace
result = func(*args, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libsmbios_c/rbu_hdr.py", line 43, in
dumpHdrFileInfo
print _("BIOS Version: %s") % hdr.biosVersion()
File "<libsmbios_c._peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping
libsmbios_c.rbu_hdr.biosVersion at 0x018A25F0>", line 3, in biosVersion
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libsmbios_c/trace_decorator.py", line
98, in trace
result = func(*args, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libsmbios_c/rbu_hdr.py", line 87, in
biosVersion
ver = "%d.%d.%d" % struct.unpack("BBB", self.hdr.biosVersion)
struct.error: unpack requires a string argument of length 3
--
* Regression potential: none.
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python-libsmbbios bios version check on lucid [backport request]
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