[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#618036: Bug#618036: libvirt0: missing dependency: dmidecode

[Guido Günther]

Hi William,
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 06:48:53PM +0100, William Dauchy wrote:
> Hi Guido,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> > Thanks for the patch but it looks like this is only being used by the
> > daemon not by the library itself. Any reason why you added the
> > dependencies to the lib? How do you trigger the segfaults?
> 
> Perhaps am I wrong but I found the 'virSysinfoRead' in the library
> which is the one using dmidecode. I guess the daemon is calling it
> when needed.
It's a private symbol that only get's called from the qemu driver which
is run through libvirtd.

> I'll be pleased to correct my patch if needed.
Unfortunately it's not that simple. I looked at the code and it
shouldn't crash without dmidecode (so a Recommends would be enouth). How
would I reproduce the error so I can track down the crash?
Cheers,
 -- Guido