We sometimes see problems updating our Dell machines to the latest firmware, ie. update_firmware -y fails:
Running updates...
- Installing dell_dup_componentid_00159 - 1.4.7Installation failed for
package: dell_dup_componentid_00159 - 1.4.7
aborting update...
The error message from the low-level command was:
Could not parse output, bad xml for package: dell_dup_componentid_0015
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Dell have been unable to tell me why this is, or provide a fix or workaround.
Here's what I did to get the firmware installed: