Client fails to detect VM type when run on POWER kvm

Please see this accurate, but extra subtle bug for reference in the client.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/landscape-client/+bug/1271921

A fix was committed on the referenced bug.

Hello Andreas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted landscape-client into utopic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/landscape-client/14.12-0ubuntu0.14.10 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

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Hello Andreas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted landscape-client into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/landscape-client/14.12-0ubuntu0.14.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

We can't get the same environment to test this again, POWER is not exactly off-the-shelf hardware. I suggest we consider this verified, or just skip the verification on this one.

I managed to login on such a machine, and while I couldn't register it with landscape due to other reasons (restricted access, no root, etc), I was able to check that the /proc/cpuinfo file that it exposes would have been enough to flag it as a virtual machine for Landscape.

So, this was verified with the package from trusty-proposed:

(trusty-ppc64el)andreas@kelsey01:~$ apt-cache policy landscape-client
landscape-client:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 14.12-0ubuntu0.14.04
  Version table:
     14.12-0ubuntu0.14.04 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty-proposed/main ppc64el Packages
     14.01-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty/main ppc64el Packages

Likewise for utopic:

(utopic-ppc64el)andreas@kelsey01:~$ apt-cache policy landscape-client
landscape-client:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 14.12-0ubuntu0.14.10
  Version table:
     14.12-0ubuntu0.14.10 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ utopic-proposed/main ppc64el Packages
     14.01-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ utopic/main ppc64el Packages

Forgot to paste /proc/cpuinfo in the previous comment, here it is. It's the same for utopic and trusty, of course:
(utopic-ppc64el)andreas@kelsey01:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : POWER7+ (raw), altivec supported
clock : 4284.000000MHz
revision : 2.1 (pvr 004a 0201)

processor : 1
cpu : POWER7+ (raw), altivec supported
clock : 4284.000000MHz
revision : 2.1 (pvr 004a 0201)

processor : 2
cpu : POWER7+ (raw), altivec supported
clock : 4284.000000MHz
revision : 2.1 (pvr 004a 0201)

processor : 3
cpu : POWER7+ (raw), altivec supported
clock : 4284.000000MHz
revision : 2.1 (pvr 004a 0201)

processor : 4
cpu : POWER7+ (raw), altivec supported
clock : 4284.000000MHz
revision : 2.1 (pvr 004a 0201)

processor : 5
cpu : POWER7+ (raw), altivec supported
clock : 4284.000000MHz
revision : 2.1 (pvr 004a 0201)

timebase : 512000000
platform : pSeries
model : IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)
machine : CHRP IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)

Hello Andreas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted landscape-client into lucid-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/landscape-client/14.12-0ubuntu0.10.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Verified with the package in lucid-proposed. Since I couldn't get access to POWER hardware I instead verified the code was the same as the utopic version, which succeeded at detecting POWER hardware.

tribaal@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy landscape-client
landscape-client:
  Installed: 14.12-0ubuntu0.10.04
  Candidate: 14.12-0ubuntu0.10.04
  Version table:
 *** 14.12-0ubuntu0.10.04 0
        500 http://deb-mirror.habari.co.tz/ubuntu/ lucid-proposed/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     13.07.3-0ubuntu0.10.04 0
        500 http://deb-mirror.habari.co.tz/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
     1.5.0.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.0 0
        500 http://deb-mirror.habari.co.tz/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

Verified with the package in precise-proposed. Since I couldn't get access to POWER hardware I instead verified the code was the same as the utopic version, which succeeded at detecting POWER hardware.

tribaal@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy landscape-client
landscape-client:
  Installed: 14.12-0ubuntu0.12.04
  Candidate: 14.12-0ubuntu0.12.04
  Version table:
 *** 14.12-0ubuntu0.12.04 0
        500 http://deb-mirror.habari.co.tz/ubuntu/ precise-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     13.07.3-0ubuntu0.12.04 0
        500 http://deb-mirror.habari.co.tz/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
     12.04.3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://deb-mirror.habari.co.tz/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

The verification of the Stable Release Update for landscape-client has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.