Why is dmidecode failing?
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Apr 18 16:15:18 UTC 2007
In the last episode (Apr 18), Bruce Burden said:
>
> Hi gang,
>
> I am attempting to update the ports on my system. To that
> end:
>
> /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -aruv
>
> fails:
>
> ===> Installing for hal-0.5.8.20070403
> ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids - found
> ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python - found
> ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on executable: dmidecode - not found
This says that dmidecode isn't in your path. Make sure that
/usr/local/sbin is in your path, since that's where dmidecode is
installed.
> ===> Checking if sysutils/dmidecode already installed
> ===> dmidecode-2.8 is already installed
This says that the dmidecode port is installed.
If /usr/local/sbin/dmidecode doens't exist, try deinstalling and
reinstalling the dmidecode port, in case something deleted the
dmidecode binary on you.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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