update_firmware failure: InventoryGenerator() takes no arguments (2given)

[Michael Blinn]

Are there .deb firmware packages for Ubuntu, or should one use the .BIN 
files?
-Michael Blinn

Michael_E_Brown at dell.com wrote:
> We just discussed this error yesterday on firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com. :)
>
> Solution: "rpm -e dell-lsiflash; rpm -e dell-bmcflash"
>
> Background: these two RPMs are now obsolete and replaced by the dell-dup package. I have an update queued for dell-dup that will use the proper RPM "Obsoletes:" tag, but havent yet released it.
> --
> Michael
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com on behalf of J. Potter
> Sent: Tue 3/4/2008 6:36 AM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: update_firmware failure: InventoryGenerator() takes no arguments (2given)
>  
>
> Hi List,
>
> I'm seeing the below error on all of our CentOS 5 (both 32 and 64 bit)  
> systems. These boxes are up-to-date with the latest rpms, and I don't  
> find this error message on Google. This is with firmware- 
> tools-2.0.10-1.el5.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks!
> -Jeff
>
>
> % update_firmware
>
> 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 "<peak.util.decorators.rewrap wrapping cli.doCommands at  
> 0x2AAAB0DD2500>", 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 update_cmd.doCommand at  
> 0x2AAAB14A12A8>", 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/update_cmd.py", line 59, in  
> doCommand
>      base.updateFirmware()
>    File "<peak.util.decorators.rewrap wrapping cli.updateFirmware at  
> 0x2AAAB0DD2C80>", line 3, in updateFirmware
>    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 147, in updateFirmware
>      updateSet = self.calculateUpgradeList(cb=mycb(depFailures))
>    File "<peak.util.decorators.rewrap wrapping  
> firmwaretools.calculateUpgradeList at 0x2AAAB04BFA28>", line 3, in  
> calculateUpgradeList
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/ 
> trace_decorator.py", line 81, in trace
>      result = func(*args, **kw)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/__init__.py",  
> line 242, in calculateUpgradeList
>      self.systemInventory.addAvailablePackage(candidate)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/__init__.py",  
> line 257, in <lambda>
>      fget=lambda self: self._getInventory(),
>    File "<peak.util.decorators.rewrap wrapping  
> firmwaretools._getInventory at 0x2AAAAAB230C8>", line 3, in  
> _getInventory
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/ 
> trace_decorator.py", line 81, in trace
>      result = func(*args, **kw)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/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)
>
>
>
>      def _getInventory(self):
>          if self._systemInventory is not None:
>              return self._systemInventory
>
>          self._systemInventory = repository.SystemInventory()
>          self.plugins.run("preinventory")
>          for name, func in self._inventoryFuncs.items():
>              self.verbose_logger.info("running inventory for module:  
> %s" % name)
>              callCB(self.cb, who="populateInventory",  
> what="call_func", func=func)
> 230:            for dev in func(base=self, cb=self.cb):
>                  callCB(self.cb, who="populateInventory",  
> what="got_device", device=dev)
>                  self._systemInventory.addDevice(dev)
>
>
>
>
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