OCI: OL9 dmidecode Fails with Error “Wrong DMI structures count: 10 announced, only 0 decoded"
in Linux
Applies to:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Linux 9 x86-64
Symptoms:
dmidecode package version dmidecode-3.3-7.el9_2.1.x86_64
returns the following output:
$ sudo dmidecode # dmidecode 3.3 Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 2.8 present. 10 structures occupying 0 bytes. Table at 0xBF940000. Wrong DMI structures count: 10 announced, only 0 decoded.
Solution:
Issue is fixed in dmidecode version dmidecode-3.3-7.0.1.el9_2.1.x86_64
or later.
Update the dmidecode package using command below:
$ sudo dnf update dmidecode
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