Why is dmidecode failing?

[Dan Nelson]

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