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[Jeff Lane <jeffrey.lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

https://certification.canonical.com/hardware/201209-11816
https://certification.canonical.com/hardware/201209-11624

Here are the two systems that this was seen on.  They're accessible
behind yantok (the Taipei satellite). Tim Chen (ctf) can get you access
if you'd like to get hands on with the machines. Otherwise, they're both
Acer servers so perhaps just asking Acer to fix their BIOS would be
enough? :)

** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  FWTS reports several HIGH failures on an server

Status in “fwts” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ran fwts as part of the certification suite on a server and noted
  several HIGH level failures causing our test to fail.  All of the
  failures were from the dmi_decode test and I was able to manually
  confirm this.

  The first one is from the Chassis info (Type 3):

  00018 dmi_decode      FAILED [HIGH] DMIInvalidHardwareEntry: Test 1, Unmatched Chassis Type SMBIOS
  00019 dmi_decode      Type 3 reports 1c ACPI FACP reports 3

  Here is the actual output from dmidecode:

  Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 22 bytes
  Chassis Information
  	Manufacturer: Acer
  	Type: Blade
  	Lock: Not Present
  	Version:         
  	Serial Number:                       
  	Asset Tag:                       
  	Boot-up State: Safe
  	Power Supply State: Safe
  	Thermal State: Safe
  	Security Status: None
  	OEM Information: 0x00000000
  	Height: Unspecified
  	Number Of Power Cords: 1
  	Contained Elements: 0
  	SKU Number:         

  And the DTMF standard says this in section 7.4 (grokked from the fwts log advice):
  1Ch  Blade. An SMBIOS implementation for a Blade would contain a Type 
  3 Chassis structure for the individual Blade system as well as one for 
  the Blade Enclosure that completes the Blade system.

  The rest are related to several DMIValueOutOfRange errors.  I will let
  you look at those via the log file.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: fwts 0.24.21
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-30.48-generic 3.2.27
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Sep 11 14:31:28 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:
   TERM=xterm
   LANG=en_US
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: fwts
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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