On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:26:19PM +0100, James Pearson wrote: > Gavin Carr wrote: > The ipmitool-1.8.8-disabled-sensor.patch may well be to fix Woodcrest > specific issues - but it also removes part of the code that affects > temperature readings on (some?) Dells ... > > I'm not an expert on IPMI, but the code that patch did remove, looks a > bit hacky (may be that is why it was removed?) - however, one side > effect of this is to prevent some temperature reading on SC1435s and may > be other Dell hardware. I have no idea if the 'real' issue is with > ipmitool or the Dell hardware. > > However, if you rebuild OpenIPMI without that patch, then ipmitool will > work as before when reading temperatures on SC1435s > > It is not a kernel issue - you get the same problem using ipmitool > talking over the lanplus interface (which goes nowhere near the kernel). > > The simple work around is to use ipmitool from the CentOS 4.4 RPM (as > the only change to ipmitool between 4.4 and 4.5 were the Woodcrest fixes). > > I have created an updated SRPM which reverses that part of the Woodcrest > fixes that affect these Dells - if you are interested, the SRPM is at: > > <ftp://ftp.moving-picture.com/private/OpenIPMI-1.4.14-1.4E.17a.src.rpm>
Fantastic - thanks for your explanation and the SRPM James. For the record, James appears to be completely correct and his SRPM fixes my problems here on CentOS 4.5 - woohoo! His patch also applies cleanly to the current CentOS 5 package and fixes the problem there as well - a patched SRPM is available here for anyone else experiencing the problem: http://www.openfusion.com.au/labs/dist/OpenIPMI-2.0.6-5.of.el5.3a.src.rpm (and binary packages are in http://www.openfusion.com.au/mrepo/). Cheers, Gavin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos