OCI: OL9 dmidecode Fails with Error “Wrong DMI structures count: 10 announced, only 0 decoded"

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