** Description changed: + [Impact] + This impacts installations on new hardware which is not well supported by the version of dmidecode available in the release (2.12); this is especially apparent with systems based on the Intel Skylake line of processors. + + [Test case] + Attempt an install with ubiquity (Desktop image), on 15.10 or any prior release on a Skylake system. Installation will crash at the username/hostname panel in ubiquity. + + [Regression potential] + None. This explicitly replaces a known string warning for the system model coming from dmidecode only in the case where ubiquity uses it as a basis for a hostname; and doesn't affect any other part of the installation or the final system. + + --- + With dmidecode older than 3.0, certain newer hardware contains a large warning message in, say, the system-product-name string. For example, this: dmidecode --quiet --string system-product-name Would return something like: SMBIOS-implementations-newer-than-version-2-8-are-not-fully-supported- by-this-version-of-dmidecode-MODEL-NAME This is problematic because the resulting default hostname built by Ubiquity isn't valid (it's too long). I while back I investigated backporting dmidecode 3.0 to 14.04.4, but it seems to have problems with older kernels for certain string keys (I was testing with the 3.19 kernel). Another way to work around this is to have Ubiquity clean this up before using the system-product-name string as part of the default hostname. So I'm going to whip up a merge proposal for Ubiquity to fix this. Apologies I'm bringing this up so near the 14.04.4 release, I dropped the ball on this one. Thanks!
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