Re: [Freeipmi-users] freeipmi 0.3.3 on a dell poweredge 2950

[Al Chu]

Hi Florian,

Not sure of your familiar w/ FreeIPMI, just to double check, you
attempted to flush, and then re-run ipmi-sensors again?

I've pinged the other FreeIPMI develoeprs to throw in some of their
ideas.  But some of mine:

1)

Could you try running bmc-info?  Since that doesn't require an SDR
cache, it will remove at least 1 variable from this trouble-shooting.

2)

It looks like the default addresses were utilized on the 2600, so maybe
it's worth a shot trying them on the 2800/2900:

> ipmi-sensors --no-probing -D KCS --driver-address=0xCA2 --register-
spacing 1

and for kicks try register spacing of 4 too

> ipmi-sensors --no-probing -D KCS --driver-address=0xCA2 --register-
spacing 4

in fact it may be worth trying a few combinations, including 0xCA8 in
there too b/c that is the probed driver address.

3)

I re-wrote the SDR cache debugging/stableness code in 0.4.X.  It
includes some extra debugging.  It may be worthwhile trying to install a
newer version to get extra info.  

Al

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:24 +0200, TestmailBBnewcop wrote:
> Hi Al
> 
> thanks for your answer.
> ipmi-locate looks a bit different on my poweredge 2600:
> 
> --------------------------<snip>------------------------------
> Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> 
> Probing SMIC device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> 
> Probing BT device using DMIDECODE... done
> IPMI Version: 1.0
> IPMI locate driver: DMIDECODE
> IPMI interface: BT
> BMC driver device:
> BMC I/O base address: E4
> Register space: 1
> 
> Probing SSIF device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED
> Probing SMIC device using ACPI... FAILED
> Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED
> Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED
> Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED
> Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED
> Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED
> Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED
> 
> KCS device default values:
> IPMI Version: 1.5
> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> IPMI interface: KCS
> BMC driver device:
> BMC I/O base address: CA2
> Register space: 1
> 
> SMIC device default values:
> IPMI Version: 1.5
> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> IPMI interface: SMIC
> BMC driver device:
> BMC I/O base address: CA9
> Register space: 1
> 
> BT device default values:
> 
> SSIF device default values:
> IPMI Version: 1.5
> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> IPMI interface: SSIF
> BMC driver device: /dev/i2c-0
> BMC SMBUS slave address: 42
> Register space: 1
> 
> --------------------------<snap>------------------------------
> I checked it also on a poweredge 2850 and got the same error.
> The poweredge 2600 seems to be the only working system.
> The differences between 2850 and 2950:
> 2950:
> --------------------------<snip>------------------------------
> Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... done
> IPMI Version: 2.0
> IPMI locate driver: DMIDECODE
> IPMI interface: KCS
> BMC driver device:
> BMC I/O base address: CA8
> Register space: 4
> --------------------------<snip>------------------------------
> 
> 2850:
> --------------------------<snip>------------------------------
> Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... done
> IPMI Version: 1.5
> IPMI locate driver: DMIDECODE
> IPMI interface: KCS
> BMC driver device:
> BMC I/O base address: CA8
> Register space: 4
> --------------------------<snip>------------------------------
> 
> I tried the flush cache option but it didn't solve it.
> 
> Florian
> 
> 
> Albert Chu schrieb:
> > Hi Florian,
> >
> > Out of my curiosity, did ipmi-locate return the same info on the dell
> > poweredge 2600??
> >
> > I'm not 100% on what your bug could be right now, but could you also try
> > to flush the SDR cache using the -f option.  There was a similar fread()
> > error message on the FreeIPMI 0.4.X trunk that I fixed.  I suppose it's
> > possible it existed in 0.3.X too.
> >
> > Al
> >
> >   
> >> Hello
> >> i'm testing freeipmi 0.3.3 on a freebsd 6.2 server (dell poweredge 2950).
> >> Freeipmi was installed from ports and der is no newer version there at
> >> the moment.
> >> ipmi-locate gives me the following:
> >> --------------------------<snip>------------------------------
> >> FILTER3.GGAMAUR.NET # ipmi-locate
> >> Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... done
> >> IPMI Version: 2.0
> >> IPMI locate driver: DMIDECODE
> >> IPMI interface: KCS
> >> BMC driver device:
> >> BMC I/O base address: CA8
> >> Register space: 4
> >>
> >> Probing SMIC device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> >> Probing BT device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> >> Probing SSIF device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> >> Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> >> Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> >> Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> >> Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> >> Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED
> >> Probing SMIC device using ACPI... FAILED
> >> Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED
> >> Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED
> >> Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED
> >> Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED
> >> Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED
> >> Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED
> >>
> >> KCS device default values:
> >> IPMI Version: 1.5
> >> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> >> IPMI interface: KCS
> >> BMC driver device:
> >> BMC I/O base address: CA2
> >> Register space: 1
> >>
> >> SMIC device default values:
> >> IPMI Version: 1.5
> >> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> >> IPMI interface: SMIC
> >> BMC driver device:
> >> BMC I/O base address: CA9
> >> Register space: 1
> >>
> >> BT device default values:
> >>
> >> SSIF device default values:
> >> IPMI Version: 1.5
> >> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> >> IPMI interface: SSIF
> >> BMC driver device: /dev/i2c-0
> >> BMC SMBUS slave address: 42
> >> Register space: 1
> >> --------------------------<snap>------------------------------
> >> And ipmi-sensors that:
> >> --------------------------<snip>------------------------------
> >> FILTER3.GGAMAUR.NET # ipmi-sensors
> >> FAILED: _fread_record: Invalid argument
> >> Fetching SDR repository information... Bus error: 10
> >> --------------------------<snap>------------------------------
> >>
> >> I tried the same on an older Dell Poweredge 2600 and there it works
> >> without a problem.
> >> Could anybody give me a hint what it could be?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Florian
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
> >   
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