[announce] firmware-tools conversions of Dell Update Packages pushed to default repo

Wed Mar 5 16:33:53 CST 2008

Here you go..

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

	
<SVMInventory lang="en" schemaVersion="1.0"  
timeStamp="2008-03-05T15:20:48">
	<OperatingSystem osCode="LIN" osVendor="Redhat" osArch="x86"  
majorVersion="package redhat-release is not installed"  
minorVersion="2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen" usingTPMmeasurements="FALSE"/>
	<System systemID="01B3" TPMmeasurementsOn="FALSE"/><Device  
componentID="159" display="BIOS"  
impactsTPMmeasurements="TRUE"><Application componentType="BIOS"  
version="1.3.7" display="BIOS"/></Device>
	<Device componentID="5814" display="Baseboard Management Controller">
       <Application componentType="FRMW" version="1.33" display="BMC"/>
    </Device>
	<Device componentID="8735" display="DRAC 5">
     <Application componentType="FRMW" version="1.20" display="DRAC 5  
Firmware">
     </Application>
   </Device>
	<Device vendorID="1028" deviceID="0015" subDeviceID="1F03"  
subVendorID="1028" bus="2" device="14" function="0" display="PERC 5/i  
Integrated Controller 0" impactsTPMmeasurements="TRUE"><Application  
componentType="FRMW" version="5.1.1-0040" display="PERC 5/i Integrated  
Controller 0 Firmware"/></Device>
	<Device componentID="12666" enum="CtrlId 0 DeviceId 0"  
display="ST3146855SS"><Application componentType="FRMW" version="S513"  
display="ST3146855SS Firmware"/></Device>
	<Device componentID="12666" enum="CtrlId 0 DeviceId 1"  
display="ST3146855SS"><Application componentType="FRMW" version="S513"  
display="ST3146855SS Firmware"/></Device>
	<Device componentID="11204" enum="CtrlId 0 DeviceId 8 Backplane"  
display="SAS/SATA Backplane 0:0 Backplane"><Application  
componentType="FRMW" version="1.05" display="SAS/SATA Backplane 0:0  
Backplane Firmware"/></Device>
	</SVMInventory>

	
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<InventoryError lang="en"><SPStatus result="false" module="pvtapeupg - 
b"><Message>Empty inventory results.</Message></SPStatus></ 
InventoryError>


On Mar 5, 2008, at 3:13 PM, <Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com> <Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com 
 > wrote:

> I'm looking at this (that was the known issue I mentioned). I have  
> not seen this on any of my test boxes, except for as a transient  
> error that happened once and was not repeatable. I should have some  
> sort of fix for this sometime this week.
>
> In the meantime, could you please send me the output of the  
> inventory collector? I'm trying to see if there is some sort of  
> pattern.
>
> # cd /usr/share/firmware/dell/dup/dell_inventory_collector_5.3.0/
> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD  ./invcol
>
> --
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tarun Reddy [mailto:treddy at rallydev.com]
> Sent: Wed 3/5/2008 4:10 PM
> To: Brown, Michael E; firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Cc: libsmbios-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: Re: [announce] firmware-tools conversions of Dell Update  
> Packages pushed to default repo
>
> If I install dell_inventory_collector, bootstrap_firmware no longer
> works. I get the following error (Centos 5 x86_64)
>
> [root at bigxen ~]# bootstrap_firmware
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/bootstrap_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 "<peak.util.decorators.rewrap wrapping cli.doCommands at
> 0x2AAAB0813500>", line 3, in doCommands
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/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 "<peak.util.decorators.rewrap wrapping bootstrap_cmd.doCommand
> at 0x2AAAB0ECE410>", line 3, in doCommand
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/
> trace_decorator.py", line 81, in trace
>     result = func(*args, **kw)
>   File "/usr/share/firmware-tools/plugins/bootstrap_cmd.py", line 58,
> in doCommand
>     for pkg in base.yieldBootstrap():
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/__init__.py",
> line 286, in yieldBootstrap
>     for i in func(base=self, cb=cb):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dell_dup/dup.py", line 120,
> in BootstrapFromInventoryCollector
>     for pkg in InventoryFromInventoryCollector(base=base, cb=cb,
> *args, **kargs):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dell_dup/dup.py", line 142,
> in InventoryFromInventoryCollector
>     for pkg in svm.genPackagesFromSvmXml(out):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dell_dup/svm.py", line 69,
> in genPackagesFromSvmXml
>     dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xmlstr)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1925, in
> parseString
>     return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 940, in
> parseString
>     return builder.parseString(string)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 223, in
> parseString
>     parser.Parse(string, True)
> xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: junk after document element: line 21,
> column 0
>
>
> Removing the package reverts bootstrap_firmware to working again.
>
> Tarun
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:39 PM, <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
>
>> In line with the testing announcement last week and a couple
>> comments this week, I'd like to announce that the firmware-tools
>> converted Dell Update Packages (DUPs) were pushed to the default
>> firmware repository last night.
>>
>> Follow the normal setup procedures here: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware
>> , and you will get the basic set of firmware-tools packages for your
>> system. To get full use of the converted DUPs, also install
>> "dell_inventory_collector". I will shortly have this package
>> automatically pulled in, but I still have one outstanding issue I
>> want to nail down before I drop it into the default install.
>>
>> --
>> Michael
>>
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>
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