Hello ethan.hsieh, or anyone else affected, Accepted dmidecode into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dmidecode/3.0-2ubuntu0.2 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 on 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-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. -- 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/1858615 Title: dmidecode triggers system reboot on Inforce 6640 Status in cloud-init: Invalid Status in dmidecode package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in dmidecode source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Status in dmidecode source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in dmidecode source package in Eoan: Fix Committed Status in dmidecode source package in Focal: Fix Released Status in dmidecode package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] Running 'sudo dmidecode' on non-UEFI ARM systems can cause them to crash/reboot. cloud-init apparently runs dmidecode as root, so it breaks any cloud-init based installation. [Test Case] sudo dmidecode [Fix] Upstream has the following fix: commit e12ec26e19e02281d3e7258c3aabb88a5cf5ec1d Author: Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de> Date: Mon Aug 26 14:20:15 2019 +0200 dmidecode: Only scan /dev/mem for entry point on x86 [Regression Risk] In Ubuntu, dmidecode only builds on amd64, arm64, armhf & i386. The fix is to disable code on !x86, so the regression risk is restricted to ARM platforms, where we know /dev/mem trolling is bad news. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1858615/+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
