Eric J. Bowersox wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 17:06 -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
>   
>> Hmm.  If you have connected with OpenIPMI with another system with the 
>> same GUID, it's going to use the other system's information from its 
>> local database.  Remove ~/.OpenIPMI_db and see if that makes a difference.
>>
>> GUIDs are *supposed* to be unique, but like you said, the one you have 
>> looks fairly suspicious.
>>     
> [elided]
>   
>> Ah, yes.  That's a big clue that my previous suggestion will help.  
>> OpenIPMI will cache data locally and only fetch it if it has changed.  
>> It tells different systems apart using the GUID.  It tells if it has 
>> change by the timestamp on the data.  I suspect that both of those are 
>> broken.
>>     
>
> You were right.  Removing /root/.OpenIPMI_db caused the whole thing to
> clear up.
>
> The cache feature sounds like it's more of a hindrance than a help in
> our situation.  Is there a way to disable it?
>   
When you run configure, you can do the following environment variable 
setting:
   ac_cv_header_gdbm_h=no

There's not a dynamic way to turn it off.  I never imagined that a 
vendor would get this wrong :(.

-corey

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