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whoopsie-daisy package

  1. Bug #963007
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 963007

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Evan (ev) wrote : Re: We need to better handle the system UUID not being present

From IRC:
stgraber: that's one of these small desktop atom systems, so nothing really special about it ... weird it doesn't have a uuid
[11:38am] ev: very odd
[11:38am] ev: I'm tempted to have it generate its own based off a hash algorithm of its choosing in this case
[11:38am] ev: taking what fields are present
[11:39am] ev: can you please create a bug against whoopsie for this with the output of dmidecode attached?
[11:40am] stgraber: I think you could use /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id at the time of the first whoopsie start
[11:40am] stgraber: won't work if you clone the system or move it to different hardware though
[11:41am] ev: that's what I'm concerned about
[11:41am] ev: ideally I'd like to have a UUID that's persistent across installations
[11:42am] ev: but I guess without the UUID being set, there's really nothing else in SMBIOS that's unique to that system
[11:42am] ev: hm