PowerEdge: Operation Not Permitted returned on PCI Bridge Root Ports with lspci command on 16G Intel based servers

Summary: The issue is cosmetic. There is no functional impact. The lspci -v command requires certain labels to read. Labels are missing from the current Basic Input Output System (BIOS) but are added to June block BIOS v2.2.4. ...

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Symptoms

Using the lspci command with the verbose option returns operation not permitted on Intel Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bridge root ports. The following is an excerpt of the overall output from the lspci -v command.

00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1bba (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
pcilib: Error reading /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:0a.0/label: Operation not permitted
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 135, NUMA node 0
        Memory at 20fffff40000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: [disabled]
        Memory behind bridge: 95a00000-95afffff [size=1M]


All supported Red Hat, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu operating systems exhibit this symptom.

Affected Servers:

  • R660
  • R760
  • R660xs
  • R760xs
  • R760xd2
  • R760xa


Affected BIOS:  v2.1.5 and earlier

Cause

The BIOS is missing label information from Intel PCI bridge root ports.

Resolution

The root cause for this issue is known and is fixed in BIOS v2.2.4.

This issue is cosmetic. There is no functional impact.
 

Affected Products

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, PowerEdge R660, PowerEdge R660xs, PowerEdge R760, PowerEdge R760XA, PowerEdge R760xd2, PowerEdge R760xs, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 8 , SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, Ubuntu Server LTS ...

Products

PowerEdge R860, PowerEdge R960
Article Properties
Article Number: 000223577
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 01 May 2025
Version:  2
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