Package: ipmitool Version: 1.8.8-3 Severity: normal (also applies to 1.8.9-1 from my reading the diff)
Hi, ipmitool is somehow confusing for newcomers. Once installed, running “ipmitool sdr” returned: | Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory | Get Device ID command failed | Unable to open SDR for reading OK. So I modprobe'd ipmi_* (especially ipmi_si and ipmi_devintf) and tried again, and got the same error message. But ls-ing /dev/ipmi[tab] showed /dev/ipmi0. Ahah, gotcha, one has to be root. But why -ENOENT, then? Actually, that's due to the fact that all of them are tried in a row, and lperror() is finally called (see src/plugins/open/open.c), which is a wrapper around perror(), which explains why the printed error matches (the last) errno, which reports the last open() failure, which is indeed -ENOENT. I'm not sure how to improve that, but that surely would be appreciated. Maybe not using lperror() but rather printing possible failing reasons (might be due to non-existing devices or insufficient permissions) might be the way to go? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
