Problems when running on Linux

[Weythran]

On Linux, the script is giving an error:
dmi_info['DmiBIOSReleaseDate'] = v['data']['Release Date']
NameError: name 'v' is not defined.

Plus, I noticed that under Linux the script is also checking for Windows dependencies...

[nsmfoo]

Hi,

Sorry for my late reply.

It's a bit confusing but the script builds a template that is aimed at running inside a Windows host and in order to be self containing it also includes the Windows binaries from the start, so you don't need to manually copy the needed files at a later stage. I hope it makes sense?

Regarding the issue you are having, the script is unable to find the Release Date from the BIOS value. Just to be able to help you out better, how does your setup look like? Are you running the script on bare metal or in a VM. The "best" method is run it on bare metal Linux, this can be done by booting a computer with a Linux live CD, run the script and collect the template. Then you can use the template in your regular setup.

Please get back to me and I'm sure I can figure out a way to help you =)

[Weythran]

Hello,
I'm running it on bare metal, a regular Debian setup.
I've tried running it from a live CD, and some dependency packages were not available for install: cd-drive, lspci, python-dmidecode, smartctl. Could you try running this on a Linux and tell me if you encounter the same problems, or if I'm doing something wrong. Thanks.

[nsmfoo]

Hi,

Bare metal is good. So the reason you are getting this error, is because as noted above, that the script is unable to retrive the correct information. As the BIOS information differ between vendor it might just be something silly. If you can send me the output of:

sudo dmidecode -t0

It would help me pin down the problem.

Just to respond regarding live-cd runs, you can in most case install missing software even when using a live-cd.

[Weythran]

Hello,
I meant that some dependency packages themselves don't seem to exist in repositories. smartctl - unable to locate package, lspci - no installation candidate, etc.

[nsmfoo]

Hi,

They are not listed as general dependencies as it's not that common that people run the template on a server, which seems like you do?

Anyway: lscpi can be found in the Ubuntu package pciutils and smartctl in smartmontools if I remember correctly

[Weythran]

I've tried it on Ubuntu 16.04 and managed to get all the dependencies together, and now running the script is giving me this error:

[*] Creating VirtualBox modifications ..
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "antivmdetect.py", line 247, in
if 'SG_IO' in disk_dmi['FirmwareRevision']:
KeyError: 'FirmwareRevision'

The output of sudo dmidecode -t0 is:
# dmidecode 3.0
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: Dell Inc.
Version: A03
Release Date: 09/01/2008
Address: 0xF0000
Runtime Size: 64 kB
ROM Size: 1728 kB
Characteristics:
ISA is supported
PCI is supported
PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported
PNP is supported
BIOS is upgradeable
BIOS shadowing is allowed
Boot from CD is supported
Selectable boot is supported
3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Printer services are supported (int 17h)
CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
ACPI is supported
USB legacy is supported
AGP is supported
Smart battery is supported
BIOS boot specification is supported
Function key-initiated network boot is supported
Targeted content distribution is supported
BIOS Revision: 0.3
Firmware Revision: 0.3

I'm not running this on a server, but on a my simple laptop. :)

[nsmfoo]

I guess that the value "'FirmwareRevision" is not populated.

Do you get any output when you run: hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep -o 'FwRev=[A-Za-z0-9_+/ ."-]*' | awk -F= '{print $2}' ?

[Weythran]

The output is;
/dev/sda: No such file or directory

[nsmfoo]

Ok, so if you run: "sudo fdisk -l" and send me the output we can try to figure out what you are using instead. Btw which Linux dist are you using?

[Weythran]

I am using Ubuntu 16.04LTS in live CD mode. The fdisk command gives this output:

Disk /dev/ram0: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram1: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram2: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram3: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram4: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram5: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram6: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram7: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram8: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram9: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram10: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram11: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram12: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram13: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram14: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/ram15: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/loop0: 1.3 GiB, 1433468928 bytes, 2799744 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3.7 GiB, 3965190144 bytes, 7744512 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 * 128 7744511 7744384 3.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

[nsmfoo]

Are you booting on a flashmemory? If /dev/mmcblk0 is your boot device, try to replace /dev/sda with /dev/mmcblk .

[Weythran]

I'm running from a live DVD inside a DVD-RW drive. Still, running a command
hdparm -i /dev/mmcblk | grep -o 'FwRev=[A-Za-z0-9_+/ ."-]*' | awk -F= '{print $2}'
produces the result:
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Invalid argument

[Weythran]

Have you been able to find a solution?

[nsmfoo]

Hi sorry for my lack of response, I will try to catch up during next week

[Weythran]

Any luck?

[nsmfoo]

As you are not able to use hdparm on SD cards (apparently) , do you have better luck if you try the following command?

udevadm info -a /dev/mmcblk

If so, could you share the raw string for:

ATTRS{model}
ATTRS{rev}
ATTRS{vendor}

[nsmfoo]

Did you any chance to look into it?

[nsmfoo]

I will close this issue, but feel free to re-open it

[Weythran]

Hello,
the udevadm info -a /dev/mmcblk command results in:
Unknown device, absolute path in /dev/ or /sys expected.

[oaustin]

Hello,
I have exactly the same issue... I'm using metal ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
The output of the following: hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep -o 'FwRev=[A-Za-z0-9_+/ ."-]*' | awk -F= '{print $2}'
produces /dev/sda: No such file or directory

[oaustin]

below is fdisk -l output

Disk /dev/loop0: 2.3 MiB, 2355200 bytes, 4600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop1: 42.1 MiB, 44183552 bytes, 86296 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop2: 87.9 MiB, 92164096 bytes, 180008 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop3: 13 MiB, 13619200 bytes, 26600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop4: 87.9 MiB, 92119040 bytes, 179920 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop5: 2.3 MiB, 2433024 bytes, 4752 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop6: 14.5 MiB, 15208448 bytes, 29704 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop7: 3.7 MiB, 3887104 bytes, 7592 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x69d7a225

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 * 2048 500117503 500115456 238.5G 83 Linux

Disk /dev/loop8: 86.9 MiB, 91099136 bytes, 177928 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop9: 14.5 MiB, 15196160 bytes, 29680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop10: 140.9 MiB, 147722240 bytes, 288520 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop11: 14.5 MiB, 15204352 bytes, 29696 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop12: 34.7 MiB, 36323328 bytes, 70944 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop13: 13 MiB, 13619200 bytes, 26600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop14: 3.7 MiB, 3878912 bytes, 7576 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes