[OpenIndiana-discuss] prtdiag: failed to load SMBIOS: System does not export an SMBIOS table

[Jerry Kemp]

I have just installed OpenIndiana b147 on a new (to me) system that I 
have just acquired.

The system is an original Sun Ultra 20 (not an m2 model)
I did upgrade the ram to 4 Gb, from the original 512Mb

plugged in a USB type 6 keyboard and a crossbow mouse.

the monitor is a Sun (rebranded) 19" LCD monitor.

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The installation completed with out any issues or problems.

In trying to find out more about the system, I wanted to use prtdiag. 
Usage of prtdiag, in any form promptly spits out this error message:

prtdiag: failed to load SMBIOS: System does not export an SMBIOS table

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running::

# truss prtdiag

shows a "failed to open SMBIOS:" error message

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A Yahoo search of the error shows a few, but not many hits.  Apparently, 
this issue was somewhat common in the OpenSolaris build 2x and build 3x 
time period.

Probably the best hit I found was this ::

<http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.solaris/2005-12/msg00918.html>

with a comment from Casper Dik commenting that some information can be 
obtained by running

smbios -B /dev/xsvc

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Can my prtdiag be fixed or repaired?  If this was some obscure hardware 
I would understand if it couldn't.

Thank you,

Jerry Kemp