Package: libsmbios-bin
Version: 0.13.10-1
Severity: important

I tried updating my bios (from a04 to a05 and a08) but this
did not work.

dellBiosUpdate just sits there for a while, then it
fails with 'file not found'
I ran strace, and found that dellBiosUpdate makes 302569 repeated
attempts at accessing the file
/sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
No such file exists. However, the 2.6.24 kernel provides a file named
/sys/class/firmware/firmware-dell_rbu/loading


To debug this, I remounted sysfs on a different mountpoint
and created a /sys with links to everything in the real sysfs.
There, I renamed "firmware-dell_rbu" to "dell_rbu"


With this change, the dellBiosUpdate utility ran to completion.
Upon reboot, the bios detected an upgrade, but
gave me the error message:
Error! the BIOS update could not be performed because a valid ROM
image could not be found.

So perhaps sysfs in 2.6.24 has more changes incompatible with
the dellBiosUpdate utility.

Helge Hafting

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
 APT prefers testing
 APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-hh3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libsmbios-bin depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.7-6            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library
ii  libsmbios1              0.13.10-1        Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libsmbiosxml1           0.13.10-1        Provide XML access to (SM)BIOS inf
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20080116-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

libsmbios-bin recommends no packages.

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