Re: [Freeipmi-users] in-band failure on Suns

[Al Chu]

Hi Dave,

> I built it straight from the tarball (with no configure options) and
> bmc-info (for instance) worked.

Great!

> I then built the RPM, and got the same failure as with the current 
> release.

That is indeed interesting.  My only guess is that perhaps a lingering
old freeipmi.tar.gz src file was picked up during the rpm build?  But
then again, I gave you a new version number, so that's probably not it.
Hmmmm.  How are you building the rpm?

> I'm off now until Wednesday, but I can look at it again sometime next
> week.

Thanks.  PLMK if you figure out something.

Al

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 16:28 +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> Al Chu <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hey Dave,
> >
> > I think I may have fixed a problem that may be the problem for atleast
> > one of the problems you listed below. Could you check out this tar.gz
> > and let me know that it works?
> 
> It looks as if you've spotted the problem, but I'm a bit confused...  I
> built it straight from the tarball (with no configure options) and
> bmc-info (for instance) worked.  I then built the RPM, and got the same
> failure as with the current release.  The obvious difference between the
> two binaries was that one that worked was statically linked, and the
> other dynamically, though I'm not sure why, and I'm pretty sure I was
> picking up the new shared library.
> 
> I hadn't realized that it would have worked previously if I removed the
> openipmi kernel modules, but we need to be able to run ipmitool as well,
> so they will normally be loaded.
> 
> I'm off now until Wednesday, but I can look at it again sometime next
> week.
-- 
Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory