update_firmware and bootstrap_firmware issue (cont.)

Tarun Reddy treddy at rallydev.com
Wed Dec 3 14:46:44 CST 2008


Anyone from dell who can help here? I'm also still having the same problem.
I also this only on machines with a PERC 5/i device. PERC 4e/Si server works
fine.
Thank you,
Tarun

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Adam Goodall <agoodall at rm.com> wrote:

>
> From: firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com
> [mailto:firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On Behalf Of
> Patrik Karen
> Sent: 27 November 2008 10:03
> To: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: update_firmware and bootstrap_firmware issue (cont.)
>
> I just subscribed to the list so I don't have the original post to reply
> to, but I'm having the same problem. Seems to come from an error in the
> output from dell_inventory_collector.
> The 'device="e"' output for the Perc5/i controller below doesn't seem
> right. Anyone knows how to correct this? Bug? Everything works fine for
> me on hosts without the Perc5/i.
> [root at pe2 dell_inventory_collector_version_5.5.0]# yum list
> installed|egrep '^dell|firmware|libsmbios'
> dell-dup.noarch                          1.1.2-1.15.el5
> installed
> dell_inventory_collector.noarch          5.5.0-1
> installed
> firmware-addon-dell.x86_64               2.1.2-4.2.el5
> installed
> firmware-tools.noarch                    2.1.2-4.2.el5
> installed
> libsmbios-devel.x86_64                   2.2.5-1.1.el5
> installed
> libsmbios2.x86_64                        2.2.5-1.1.el5
> installed
>
>
>
> Did anyone get to the bottom of this? I found that rolling back the
> dell_inventory_collector to v 5.4 allows the update to run, as soon as I
> put 5.5 back on I get a similar trace as the original poster.
>
> Thanks
> Adam
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