Glad it works. I hope Redhat can fix this situation eventually. It's truly awful.
Al On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 01:01 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > I was just about to respond to my own message that I tested both old and > new freeipmi versions on old and new install and found that on centos 5 > things work fine regardless of freeipmi version and on centos 6 things > don't work also regardless of the freeipmi version pointing to the OS as > the culprit. > > After reading the FAQ entry I installed OpenIPMI to get the init script, > started it to get /dev/ipmi0 and now bmc-config works as expected. Not > an ideal situation I agree. > > Thanks for the pointer this helped me a lot! > > Regards, > Dennis > > On 30.01.2014 00:05, Albert Chu wrote: > > Actually ... this might be your problem. > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-faq.html#Why-am-I-seeing-so-many-_0027internal-IPMI-error_0027-or-_0027driver-busy_0027-messages_003f > > > > I've complained to Redhat about this heavily. > > > > Al > > > > > > On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 00:02 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> > If I had to guess, it's possible the onboard IPMI is getting > >> > overwhelmed and things are internally causing errors (thus the > >> > randomness). > >> > > >> > Could you post the --debug output, and maybe we can get to the bottom > >> > of this. > >> > >> Sorry for not getting back earlier with a response. I tried dumping the > >> config with --debug and now it aborts with these kinds of error messages > >> at random points during the output depending on where it aborts: > >> > >> ipmi_cmd_get_user_name: internal IPMI error > >> > >> ipmi_cmd_get_lan_configuration_parameters_authentication_type_enables: > >> internal IPMI error > >> > >> fiid_obj_get: 'cipher_suite_id_entry_A': data not available > >> > >> On an older installation (centos 5) on the same hardware with freeipmi > >> 1.0.2 I cannot reproduce this issue. I'm going to build a package with > >> 1.0.2 for the newer installations (centos 6) to see if this fixes the > >> issues there as well. This might give an indication if there is > >> something wrong with the systems/bios/etc. or freeipmi. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Dennis > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
