Hi Al, i can confirm that this fix/patch works fine on our Fujitsu servers!
Thanks a lot and keep up the good work! Matthias Albert Chu schrieb am 2013-11-14 11:00: > Hi Matthias, > > I think I have a fix in already, it was pretty trivial todo. You can > try it out with: > > svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/freeipmi/branches/Release-1_3_0 freeipmi > cd freeipmi > ./autogen.sh > ./configure > make > ipmi-sensors/ipmi-sensors > > If the autogen.sh doesn't work, I can put up a tar.gz. > > Al > > On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 07:24 -0800, Albert Chu wrote: > > Hi Matthias, > > > > I had to add a workaround on some Fujitsu servers awhile back b/c there was > > a bug on those systems (originally found on Fujitsu RX 100). The bug was > > that the Fujitsu server reported the incorrect number of SDR records than > > actually existed. > > > > It seems this bug exists on your server (as indicated by the 208 out of > > 277), so I have a decent guess what happeened. In FreeIPMI 1.3, I added > > checksums into the SDR cache to protect against cache corruption (e.g. disk > > errors). However, it seems this does not account for the Fujitsu > > workaround, so I think some of the checksum calculations are off. I think > > it's a pretty easy fix. > > > > Could you run ipmi-sensors w/ --debug and send me the output? If you're > > building from source, running "configure --enable-debug --enable-trace" > > would give me even more information. > > > > Another thing you can try is to try FreeIPMI version 1.2.9 and see if the > > problem goes away. If it works with 1.2.9 that would almost certainly mean > > I'm not handling the checksum case w/ the Fujitsu workaround correctly. > > > > Thanks, > > Al > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Matthias Votisky < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I want to monitor our Fujitsu servers (RX300/RX200-S8) with free-ipmi but > > > i get a "SDR cache invalid" error message whenever i run "ipmi-sensors": > > > > > > Caching SDR repository information: /root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/... > > > Caching SDR record 208 ot 277 (current record ID 277) > > > ipmi_sdr_cache_open: /root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/...: SDR cache invalid > > > > > > The strange thing is that it works fine on Fujitsu RX300-S7 servers... > > > > > > We run a stripped down Debian with Kernel 2.6.24 and free-ipmi 1.3.1 > > > (i also tried version 1.3.3). > > > > > > Thx for any help, > > > > > > Matthias > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Freeipmi-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freeipmi-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users > -- > Albert Chu > [email protected] > Computer Scientist > High Performance Systems Division > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > > -- Matthias Votisky Entwicklung Client- & Netzwerksicherheit Geschäftsbereich Public Sector secunet Security Networks AG Ammonstr. 74 D-01067 Dresden, Germany Telefon +49 201 54 54-3654 Telefax +49 201 54 54-1323 [email protected] www.secunet.com ______________________________________________________________________ Registered at: Kronprinzenstraße 30, 45128 Essen, Deutschland Amtsgericht Essen HRB 13615 Management Board: Dr Rainer Baumgart (CEO), Willem Bulthuis, Thomas Pleines Chairman of Supervisory Board: Dr Karsten Ottenberg ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
