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[Adam Conrad <adconrad@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Samantha, or anyone else affected,

Accepted dmidecode into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dmidecode/3.0-2ubuntu0.1 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: dmidecode (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578022

Title:
  dmidecode fails to output smibios 3.0 info

Status in dmidecode package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in dmidecode source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in dmidecode source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [SRU JUSTIFICATION][XENIAL]

  Ubuntu 16.04, dmidecode 3.0-2 can display smibios 2.8 but not smibios
  3.0. Rhel 7.2 can display smibios 3.0 on the same system without a
  problem.

  [FIX]
  Let read_file return the actual data size
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=de9a74e1c60210bee229fcf55b1678a99d1b44dd

  dmidecode: Use read_file() to read the DMI table from sysfs
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=364055211b1956539c6a6268e111e244e1292c8c

  There's also a couple other SMBIOS 3.0 related fixes that is listed as
  recomended for 3.0 on http://dmidecode.nongnu.org/

  Fix 'No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found' on SMBIOS3
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=bf7bad24ce141dab5b5acc3ffb98ce5fe4a8e0f9

  Use DWORD for Structure table maximum size in SMBIOS3
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/commit/?id=ab02b117511230e46bbef7febbd854b9c832c13c

  Without the fix, dmidecode fails to display SMBIOS 3.0 tables. With
  the fix the headers can be decoded correctly.

  [REGRESSION POTENTIAL]
  Could break existing dmi table decoding.  However, this has been tested on pre 3.0 and 3.0 SMBIOS tables, so the risk seems minimal as it works on a range of DMI table versions.

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