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. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]