Public bug reported:
With dmidecode older than 3.0, certain newer hardware contains a large
warning message in, say, the system-product-name string.
For example, this:
dmidecode --quiet --string system-product-name
Would return something like:
SMBIOS-implementations-newer-than-version-2-8-are-not-fully-supported-
by-this-version-of-dmidecode-MODEL-NAME
This is problematic because the resulting default hostname built by
Ubiquity isn't valid (it's too long).
I while back I investigated backporting dmidecode 3.0 to 14.04.4, but it
seems to have problems with older kernels for certain string keys (I was
testing with the 3.19 kernel).
Another way to work around this is to have Ubiquity clean this up before
using the system-product-name string as part of the default hostname.
So I'm going to whip up a merge proposal for Ubiquity to fix this.
Apologies I'm bringing this up so near the 14.04.4 release, I dropped
the ball on this one.
Thanks!
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
14.04.4: work-around "SMBIOS-implementations-newer-than-
version-2-8..." junk from dmidecode
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