Ubuntu16.04: hvcsadmin command is not working

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Problem Description
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I installed Ubuntu16.04 on PowerVM system and try to run hvcsadmin (hypervisor virtual console server administration utility) command but it seems me broken .

Step to reproduce
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1- Install Ubuntu16.04 on PowerVM
2- Install powerpc-utils in the system
3- run hvcsadmin utility

Expected Result:

it should work on PowerVM environment

Actual Result:

Fails to run complain about systool .

LOG:

root@system:~# hvcsadmin -all
Can't exec "systool": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/hvcsadmin line 259.
systool: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/hvcsadmin line 259.
root@system:~# hvcsadmin -noisy
Can't exec "systool": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/hvcsadmin line 259.
systool: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/hvcsadmin line 259.
root@system:~# rpm -qa | grep hvcsadmin
The program 'rpm' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
apt-get install rpm
root@system:~# dpkg -l | grep powerpc-utils
ii powerpc-utils 1.2.18+r1.1.3-24ubuntu1 ppc64el Various utilities for Linux/PowerPC
root@system:~#

Note : If i install libsysfs2 sysfsutils packages than it seems me working so i think when we install powerpc-utils it should have dependencies about sysfsutils.

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[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

looks to be resolvable with the addition of a dependency on sysfsutils to the powerpc-ibm-utils package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package powerpc-utils - 1.3.1-1

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powerpc-utils (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release, update debian/copyright to GPL (LP: #1539542)
  * Rewrite debian/watch file to track upstream's move to github/nfont.
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.7 and tidy up our lintian warnings.
  * Utilize dh-autoreconf because upstream no longer ships ./configure.
  * 01_ipmitool_check.patch: Suggest package install in ipmitool check.
  * 02_systool_check.patch: Fix and ipmrove systool test (LP: #1529590)
  * debian/control: Suggest sysfsutils and ipmitool for the above bits.

 -- Adam Conrad <[e-mail]> Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:09:42 -0600

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-04-13 01:57 EDT-------
Hi

I verified this bug on Ubuntu16.04 today's build still seem me issue persists

root@ubuntu:~# hvcsadmin --all
Can't exec "systool": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/hvcsadmin line 259.
systool: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/hvcsadmin line 259.
root@ubuntu:~# dpkg -l | grep powerpc-utils
ii powerpc-utils 1.3.1-1 ppc64el utilities for maintenance of PowerPC platforms (metapackage)
root@ubuntu:~#

Regards
Praveen

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Did you fully upgrade your system? powerpc-utils is just a metapackage that depeneds on powerpc-ibm-utils.

Executing without sysfutils installed yields this for me:

ubuntu@wichita:~$ hvcsadmin --all
hvcsadmin: systool command not found.
hvcsadmin: Please install the 'sysfsutils' package and retry.

I've patched it this way to avoid pulling more dependencies into the rather minimal set of packages where powerpc-utils lives, but I think the message should be clear enough.