Turns out that the reason that srvadmin-all wouldn't install after just editing the .repo file to say OMSA_6.1 instead of latest and the failure of update_firmware were related: something strange with dependency resolution around libsmbios means that for things to work I need to remove that package before upgrading or downgrading; seems like a specific version of python-smbios is required, but I'm able to downgrade srvadmin* without yum throwing a conflict or dependency. Not sure what's wrong with the dependency graph or how to give you more useful information, but at least now I have a way back onto 6.1, and update_firmware now works with 6.2.
Still not seeing the disk controllers under 6.2 no matter what I do though, for SAS or PERC6, on 1950-III or R610. Hope that's at least moderately helpful, and let me know if there's some way I can provide better information. Ryan From: jeffrey_l_mend...@dell.com [mailto:jeffrey_l_mend...@dell.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:12 PM To: Ryan Miller; linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com Subject: RE: ***POSSIBLE SOLUTION*** OM 6.2 Broken Storage Section Ryan, Thanks for the report on the firmware update exception. What distro/version are you running? Would you mind posting the output with '--verbose'? Thanks, Jeff ________________________________ From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Ryan Miller Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:03 PM To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: ***POSSIBLE SOLUTION*** OM 6.2 Broken Storage Section I'm also seeing this issue, and no luck with the workaround either. (Plus I had to manually unload the ipmi module-stopping the service didn't do it). I opened a support case and he tried suggested to use the driver from the website - v00.00.03.21 instead of the 00.00.04.08 in the 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 kernel, but as this kernel and hardware play fine with OMSA6.1 I didn't really want to go that direction (and doubt it would help anyway). Also, firmware updates seem to be broken: [r...@write1y ~]# update_firmware --yes Running system inventory... Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates... Checking BIOS - 1.2.6 Available: dell_dup_componentid_00159 - 1.3.6 Found Update: dell_dup_componentid_00159 - 1.3.6 Checking MBE2147RC Firmware - d701 Available: dell_dup_componentid_20515 - d903 Found Update: dell_dup_componentid_20515 - d903 Checking SAS/SATA Backplane 0:0 Backplane Firmware - 1.07 Available: dell_dup_componentid_11204 - 1.05 Did not find a newer package to install that meets all installation checks. Checking PERC 6/i Integrated Controller 0 Firmware - 6.2.0-0013 Available: pci_firmware(ven_0x1000_dev_0x0060_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x1f0c) - 6.2.0-0013 Did not find a newer package to install that meets all installation checks. Checking System BIOS for PowerEdge R610 - 1.2.6 Did not find a newer package to install that meets all installation checks. Found firmware which needs to be updated. Running updates... | Installing dell_dup_componentid_00159 - 1.3.6Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/update_firmware", line 23, in ? ftmain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/firmware-tools/ftmain.py", line 109, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "<firmwaretools.peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping cli.doCommands at 0x2ABEB180B230>", line 3, in doCommands File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/trace_decorator.py", line 81, in trace result = func(*args, **kw) File "/usr/share/firmware-tools/cli.py", line 134, in doCommands self.opts.mode, self.fullCmdLine, self.args) File "<firmwaretools.peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping update_cmd.doCommand at 0x2ABEB2151C80>", line 3, in doCommand File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/trace_decorator.py", line 81, in trace result = func(*args, **kw) File "/usr/share/firmware-tools/plugins/update_cmd.py", line 61, in doCommand base.updateFirmware(base.opts.show_unknown) File "<firmwaretools.peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping cli.updateFirmware at 0x2ABEB180BAA0>", line 3, in updateFirmware File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/trace_decorator.py", line 81, in trace result = func(*args, **kw) File "/usr/share/firmware-tools/cli.py", line 214, in updateFirmware ret = firmwaretools.pycompat.runLongProcess(pkg.install, waitLoopFunction=statusFunc) File "<firmwaretools.peak_util_decorators.rewrap wrapping firmwaretools.pycompat.runLongProcess at 0x2ABEB0EEFAA0>", line 3, in runLongProcess File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/trace_decorator.py", line 81, in trace result = func(*args, **kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/firmwaretools/pycompat.py", line 177, in runLongProcess raise thread.exception xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0 Haven't dug through the python to see what the source of that might be yet, but it certainly works for me with OMSA6.1. Does anyone know what incantation I can substitute in the .repo file for mirrorlist=http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/mirrors.cgi?osname=el$releasever&basearch=$basearch&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver to stay on 6.1? Merely swapping 6.1 in for "latest" doesn't work for whatever reason. Thanks, Ryan
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