Firmware update

Michael E Brown Michael_E_Brown at dell.com
Mon Aug 20 03:41:15 CDT 2007


On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:30:22AM -0400, Eugene Pik wrote:
> On 8/20/07, Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:16:08AM -0400, Eugene Pik wrote:
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > After the latest yum update on Poweredge1950 CentOS 4.5 x86_64 (updated
> > > dell-bmcflash.x86_64 0:1.4.3-1.el4 dell-lsiflash.x86_64 0:1.4.5-1.el4
> > > firmware-addon-dell.x86_64 0:1.4.6-1.el4 firmware-tools.noarch
> > > 0:1.4.3-1.el4) the update_firmware utility throwing out following
> > > error message:
> > >
> > > # update_firmware
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "/usr/bin/update_firmware", line 188, in ?
> > >     sys.exit( main() )
> > >   File "/usr/bin/update_firmware", line 67, in main
> > >     firmwaretools.clifuncs.getConfig(ini, configLocations)
> > > NameError: global name 'configLocations' is not defined
> >
> > Hm. Not sure how that slipped through my testing.
> > (to fix, change 'configLocations' to
> > 'firmwaretools.clifuncs.configLocations')
> 
> 
> Another error after the configLocations ->
> firmwaretools.clifuncs.configLocations replacement
> 
> #update_firmware
> 
> Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates...
> 
> Checking pci_firmware(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0015_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x1f03) -
> 5.1.1-0040
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/update_firmware", line 188, in ?
>     sys.exit( main() )
>   File "/usr/bin/update_firmware", line 111, in main
>     print "\tAvailable: %s - %s" % (pkg.name, pkg.version)
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'pkg' referenced before assignment

In about 30 minutes, the testing repo should have packages that work.
Can you give them a try? I'll be releasing new official packages
tomorrow. (CST)
--
Michael



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