Problem using update_firmware -PE1950/RHEL4.6

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

You are not doing anything wrong. Actually, you've been using firmware-tools for long enough that you just uncovered a small problem for me, thanks. I just realized I need to obsolete dell-lsiflash and dell-bmcflash. They are now no longer needed because dell-dup takes their place. That'll be fixed in the next release.

You can fix your system by "rpm -e dell-lsiflash dell-bmcflash".

--
Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com on behalf of Adam Goodall
Sent: Mon 3/3/2008 8:54 AM
To: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Problem using update_firmware -PE1950/RHEL4.6
 
All

 

Im having a problem with the update_firmware utility. 

 

Im running it on the following system:

 

[root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6)

[root at localhost ~]# getSystemId

Libsmbios:    2.0.1

System ID:    0x01B3

Service Tag:  

Express Service Code: 

Product Name: PowerEdge 1950

BIOS Version: 2.0.1

Vendor:       Dell Inc.

Is Dell:      1

 

And have the following rpm's installed:

 

[root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep -e dell -e firmware

firmware-tools-2.0.10-1.el4

dell-lsiflash-2.0.5-1.el4

pci_firmware_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0015_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x1f03-a05-19.1

bmc_firmware_PowerEdge_1950-a07-18.1

firmware-addon-dell-2.0.10-1.el4

dell-bmcflash-1.4.4-1.el4

 

I can run a:

yum update `bootstrap_firmware`

 

And this successfully installs the updated packages. But when I run 

update_firmware

 

It exits with an error as so:

 

 

[root at localhost ~]# update_firmware

No handlers could be found for logger "trace.firmwaretools"

 

Running system inventory...

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/sbin/update_firmware", line 23, in ?

    ftmain.main(sys.argv[1:])

  File "/usr/share/firmware-tools/ftmain.py", line 105, in main

    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()

  File "<firmwaretools.peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping
cli.doCommands at 0xB7C72AE4>", line 3, in doCommands

  File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/trace_decorator.py",
line 81, in trace

    result = func(*args, **kw)

  File "/usr/share/firmware-tools/cli.py", line 133, in doCommands

    self.opts.mode, self.fullCmdLine, self.args)

  File "<firmwaretools.peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping
update_cmd.doCommand at 0xB7B9ADBC>", line 3, in doCommand

  File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/trace_decorator.py",
line 81, in trace

    result = func(*args, **kw)

  File "/usr/share/firmware-tools/plugins/update_cmd.py", line 59, in
doCommand

    base.updateFirmware()

  File "<firmwaretools.peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping
cli.updateFirmware at 0xB7C7D144>", line 3, in updateFirmware

  File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/trace_decorator.py",
line 81, in trace

    result = func(*args, **kw)

  File "/usr/share/firmware-tools/cli.py", line 147, in updateFirmware

    updateSet = self.calculateUpgradeList(cb=mycb(depFailures))

  File "<firmwaretools.peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping
firmwaretools.calculateUpgradeList at 0xB7C5E72C>", line 3, in
calculateUpgradeList

  File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/trace_decorator.py",
line 81, in trace

    result = func(*args, **kw)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/__init__.py",
line 242, in calculateUpgradeList

    self.systemInventory.addAvailablePackage(candidate)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/__init__.py",
line 257, in <lambda>

    fget=lambda self: self._getInventory(),

  File "<firmwaretools.peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping
firmwaretools._getInventory at 0xB7C5E56C>", line 3, in _getInventory

  File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/trace_decorator.py",
line 81, in trace

    result = func(*args, **kw)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/__init__.py",
line 230, in _getInventory

    for dev in func(base=self, cb=self.cb):

TypeError: InventoryGenerator() takes no arguments (2 given)

 

 

 

 

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what may be wrong?

 

Thanks

Adam
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