On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:30:26AM -0400, Sean Stangl wrote: > After installing firmware-addon-dell on fc6 i686, yum immediately > crashes when called with any arguments, due to the dellsysidplugin: > > $ yum update > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 82, in main > base.getOptionsConfig(args) > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 206, in getOptionsConfig > errorlevel=opts.errorlevel) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 141, in > doConfigSetup > self.plugins.run('init') > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 153, in > run > func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs)) > File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/dellsysidplugin.py", line 26, in init_hook > sysid = getSystemId() > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/biosHdr.py", line 34, in > getSystemId > output = cmdFactory_getSystemId() > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/biosHdr.py", line 27, in > cmdFactory_getSystemId > raise PermissionDenied("Failed to get System ID: %s" % output) > biosHdr.PermissionDenied: Failed to get System ID: Libsmbios: 0.13.5 > Error getting the System ID : Could not instantiate SMBIOS table. > Error getting the Service Tag : Could not instantiate SMBIOS table. > Error getting the Product Name: Could not instantiate SMBIOS table. > Error getting the BIOS Version: Could not instantiate SMBIOS table. > Error getting the Vendor : Could not instantiate SMBIOS table. > Is Dell: 0 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235621 Can you confirm which version of firmware-addon-dell that you have installed? I believe that this was fixed somewhere along 1.2.8 or so. Current version is 1.2.11. -- Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list