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dmidecode package

  1. Bug #1851676
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Peter Jose De Sousa (pjds) wrote : dmidecode decodes /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial incorrectly

Hi,

On VMWare when decoding /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial dmidecode produces an output whereby the first 16 characters have been reversed in comparison to /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid.

This manifests itself by breaking provisioning in Kubernetes and could cause other issues down the line. Other OS such as redhat have already patched this in their releases.

A demonstration of the issue can be found in this pastebin:

https://pastebin.canonical.com/p/qRfrpHXwGs/

Cheers!