OK, I finally got access to the VMs and was able to check the VMWare version there:
$ vmware-toolbox-cmd -v 10.3.0.5330 (build-8931395) So it's pre-VMWare 11. And I double checked and confirmed that we can't reproduce the problem reported here indeed: # apt policy dmidecode dmidecode: Installed: 3.1-1 ... # cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid 42187693-2BD2-5AF3-BDA4-AAF4E13CA373 # cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid 42187693-2BD2-5AF3-BDA4-AAF4E13CA373 As I said above, the patch pointed at [1] is already present on 3.1-1 (in fact, it's been available since version 2.10), so there's something else going on here. Were you able to confirm that dmidecode 3.2 fixes the issue for you? Cheers. [1]: https://github.com/mirror/dmidecode/commit/7a9fc6d3cba86ec9c517b8ec314e099c5cb433b9 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to dmidecode in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1851676 Title: dmidecode does not byte-swap for SMBIOS >= 2.6 Status in dmidecode package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hi, On VMWare 6.5 and higher (HW version 13 and higher) when decoding /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial dmidecode produces an output whereby the first 16 characters have been reversed in comparison to /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid. This manifests itself by breaking provisioning in Kubernetes and could cause other issues down the line. Other OS such as redhat have already patched this in their releases. A demonstration of the issue can be found in this pastebin: https://pastebin.canonical.com/p/qRfrpHXwGs/ VMWare Issue: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/53609 Cheers! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dmidecode/+bug/1851676/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
