Re: [dmidecode] Fixing "DMI table is broken!" error

[Kevin Wilson]

Hi,

I need to add, maybe this gives some hint:

I also have these results:

dmidecode --dump-bin foo.dump
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.5 present.
# Writing 3566 bytes to foo.dump.
# Writing 31 bytes to foo.dump.

$dmidecode --from-dump foo.dump
# dmidecode 2.12
Reading SMBIOS/DMI data from file foo.dump.
SMBIOS 2.5 present.
94 structures occupying 3566 bytes.

Invalid entry length (0). DMI table is broken! Stop.

Kevin


On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Kevin Wilson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, Erwan,
> Thanks.
> I ran this sequence now:
> git clone https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/dmidecode.git
> make
> and
> ./dmidecode
>
> And got the same:
>
> # dmidecode 3.1
> Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
> SMBIOS 2.5 present.
> 94 structures occupying 3566 bytes.
> Table at 0xBF7D9000.
>
> Invalid entry length (0). DMI table is broken! Stop
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Erwan Velu <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Can you make a try with the latest version please ?
>>
>> Le 5 sept. 2017 11:41 PM, "Kevin Wilson" <address@hidden> a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I hope someone can advise me about the following problem:
>>>
>>> I have an x86_64 machine with Ubuntu 14.04.5 on it.
>>> When I run:
>>> dmidecode
>>> I get the following error:
>>>
>>> # dmidecode 2.12
>>> SMBIOS 2.5 present.
>>> 94 structures occupying 3566 bytes.
>>> Table at 0xBF7D9000.
>>>
>>> Invalid entry length (0). DMI table is broken! Stop
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess this can be due to some faulty hw (like RAM), or maybe
>>> something with BIOS.
>>>
>>> Is there a way I can find which is the hw part/BIOS setting which
>>> causes this error message
>>> and fix it ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kevin
>>>
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