interesting update_firmware bios update failure
Michael E Brown
Michael_E_Brown at dell.com
Mon Aug 27 18:13:40 CDT 2007
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:02:06PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > The output from the low-level bios update command was:
> >
> > Supported RBU type for this system: (MONOLITHIC, PACKET) Using RBU v1
> > method: PACKET writing (0) to file: /sys/firmware/rbu/rbudatasize writing
> > (4096) to file: /sys/firmware/rbu/packetdatasize Writing RBU data
> > (4096bytes/dot):
> > ............................................................................
> > ............................................................................
> > ............................................................................
> > ...............................
> > IO Error reading HDR File: No such file or directory
>
> This is definitely "interesting".
I think I see the problem. I had reports of unchecked return value from
fread() so I went in and put some error checking in. It is hitting on a
bogus error condition.
I'll release a new version shortly.
--
Michael
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