Live CD problem

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:21:58PM +0100, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:
> I wrote:
> >  
> > I've tried to follow the instructions for building a live CD
> > (see http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/omsa_livecd).
> ...
> > Unfortunately, the sample dell-fwupdate.cfg contains a reference
> > to http://hb.us.dell.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
> > but this URL seems to be inaccessible from outside Dell.  What
> > should it be for the rest of us?
> 
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:29:25PM -0500, Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
> > That one is easy enough to resolve. Just change that line to point to
> > your closest Fedora mirror.
> 
> Well, I did this, and the CD was created.  But when I boot it and
> log in as root, update_firmware doesn't work:
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# update_firmware --yes
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/update_firmware", line 188 in <module> sys.exit( main() )
>   File "/usr/bin/update_firmware", line 67, in main
>     firmwaretools.clifuncs.getConfig(ini, configLocations)
> NameError: global name 'configLocations' is not defined

Yes, you got bit by the same bug that a few others hit last week. I
messed up in my last release.

New packages are now posted which fix this bug, and additionally, I've
got a really slick GUI: inventory_firmware_gui.
--
Michael