Re: [Freeipmi-users] fish crashes with "Segmentation fault" at startup

[Albert Chu]

> Tried two different manufacturers boards, both with known working 
> IPMI/BMC,with the default address set to 0xCA2. Success! At least I 
> know fish etc. is working OK, it's just the board that's duff.

Doh!  Sorry you got a bum board ...

> How does the new code in CVS work? Does it scan a range of 
> addresses or is there some more subtle method? I'm ready to give it a 
> try - can I accessit from Savannah ?

I don't know this section of the IPMI spec too well, but essentially
there are several areas that can be scanned for system interface
information.  It includes the PCI config, ACPI tables, and SMBIOS.  I'll
leave it to some other FreeIPMI person to describe these in more detail
since I dont know much about this section of the IPMI spec.

As for checking out from CVS, yeah its on savannah.  According to their
webpage, just do:

export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/freeipmi co freeipmi

to get the latest code.

Al

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Albert Chu
address@hidden
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

----- Original Message -----
From: address@hidden
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2005 9:42 am
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] fish crashes with "Segmentation fault" at
startup

> Hi, Albert.
> 
> Sadly, dmidecode didn't reveal anything - useful tool though, thanks.
> 
> I looked through the doumentation we have and found this :
> 
> Channel 0Fh System Interface (SMS) 290h/294h
>  Access mode -> always available
>  Protocol -> KCS
>  Medium -> System interface
>  Channel Privilege -> Administrator
>  User & password support -> N/A
>  SessionType -> Session-less, so no user and authentication support
>  Session Quantity -> 0
> 
> From this I reckoned the default SMS base address should be 0x0290 
> for this
> board. Tried changing the value in the default fish.scm (which 
> installs in
> /usr/local/etc/fish/ by default) without effect. So I made the 
> change to
> the header file as you suggested - still no luck.
> 
> Tried two different manufacturers boards, both with known working 
> IPMI/BMC,with the default address set to 0xCA2. Success! At least I 
> know fish etc.
> is working OK, it's just the board that's duff.
> 
> BTW, I noticed after I had done the rebuild that the line to be 
> changed in
> fish.scm is commented with a ';' ... Doh !
> 
> There is a chance that the documentation is wrong and I'm still 
> looking at
> the wrong address but I'm now beginning to wonder if the BMC is 
> programmedat all i.e. its EEPROM is blank.
> 
> How does the new code in CVS work? Does it scan a range of 
> addresses or is
> there some more subtle method? I'm ready to give it a try - can I 
> accessit from Savannah ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob
> 
> 
> >-- Original Message --
> >Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:49:16 -0800
> >From: Albert Chu <address@hidden>
> >Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] fish crashes with "Segmentation 
> fault" at
> startup
> >To: address@hidden
> >Cc: address@hidden
> >
> >
> >Hey Rob,
> >
> >> You could well be right about the default KCS port, I'll have a
> >> look in the morning.
> >
> >Just so you know, the IPMI specification default is 0xCA2.  If you 
> find>an alternate default port, you may want to also give a shot at 
> manually>changing the ports at the top of ipmi-kcs-interface.h.  
> There was once a
> >time I had to do that too :-)
> >
> >Also if you're interested, the CVS version of FreeIPMI has a lot of
> >enhancements, including various code to detect the system default KCS
> >port.  So if you're up for it, you could see if that works.  LMK 
> if you
> >need a tar.gz file.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Al
> 
> 
> 
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