Re: [ovirt-users] Failed to read hardware information

Good News. I installed the fedora 24 version of python-dmidecode and was able to successfully add the host to my cluster... Thanks you to everyone who looked at this. I owe you a beer or at least some reward points :-)

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Martin Polednik <mpolednik(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On 13/10/16 09:01 +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:52:17AM +1100, David Pinkerton wrote: >>> >>> Nir, >>> >>> Looks like its crashing on the dmidecode system call. >>> >>> I've attached the output from gbd as well as a dmidecode text dump, >>> dmidecode binary dump and each keywords run individually. >>> >>> >From the keywords it look like my dmi info is corrupted. I have >>> download a >>> AMI dmi editor but this only allows access to limited fields. Do you >>> know >>> another tools to rewrite the dmi info? >> >> >> I don't. But whatever is inside your dmi, dmidecode must not crash. >> Which version of python-dmidecode do you have installed? >> Would you open a bug against it? > > > This is really unfortunate - I've reproduced the issue with the > attached dump and it's python-dmidecode that crashes. The issue is > actually fixed upstream, but the version at least in RHEL does not > contain the fix. > > RHEL version: > python-dmidecode-3.10.13-11.el7.x86_64 > > works with (actual upstream): > python-dmidecode-3.12.2-1.el7.x86_64 > (actually it's ~6 line change in dmioem.c) > > VDSM output: > # vdsClient 0 getVdsHardwareInfo > systemFamily = 'To Be Filled By O.E.M.' > systemManufacturer = 'Supermicro' > systemProductName = 'H8DM8-2' > systemSerialNumber = '1234567890' > systemUUID = '00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009' > systemVersion = '1234567890' > > Although the upstream version of python-dmidecode is able to deal with > improper DMI tables, I can't say what else will/will not behave correctly. > > mpolednik > > >> I believe that its maintainers would appriace a simple reproducer, that >> does not involve ovirt or Vdsm. See if you can simplify the code in >> >> def __leafDict(d): >> ret = {} >> for k, v in d.iteritems(): >> if isinstance(v, dict): >> ret.update(__leafDict(v)) >> else: >> ret[k] = v >> return ret >> >> >> def getAllDmidecodeInfo(): >> import dmidecode >> >> myLeafDict = {} >> for k in ('system', 'bios', 'cache', 'processor', 'chassis', >> 'memory'): >> myLeafDict[k] = __leafDict(getattr(dmidecode, k)()) >> return myLeafDict >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- David Pinkerton Consultant Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty. Ltd. Level 11, Canberra House 40 Marcus Clarke Street Canberra 2600 ACT Mobile: +61-488-904-232 Email: david.pinkerton(a)redhat.com Web: http://apac.redhat.com/ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users