[Freeipmi-users] bmc-watchdog 0.7.15-2 exiting under Ubuntu 10.04

[Robert Hardy]

I'm running bmc-watchdog 0.7.15-2 under a current Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit on
several fairly new unloaded Supermicro servers.

On only one (always the same server) of four servers the bmc-watchdog
process quietly exits shortly after start up leaving the system setup for a
hard reset shortly after bootup.

The options and builds are identical on all of the servers. These are my
options: OPTIONS="-d -u 2 -p 0 -a 1 -F -P -L -S -O -i 300 -e 60"

Through debugging I've confirmed on boot up:

- The init script gets run

- It launches bmc-watchdog  saves a new PID correctly in 
/var/run/bmc-watchdog.pid.

- Checking for a bmc-watchdog process in rc.local shows it isn't running and
  the timer is counting down.

- There is no shutdown message logged when the process disappears during bootup.

- There are no messages suggesting the process was killed

On shutdown the init script gets as far as removing
/var/run/bmc-watchdog.pid and seems to work fine.

If I stuff this in rc.local the bmc-watchdog starts up properly and never
seems to die again until the next reboot:
/usr/sbin/service bmc-watchdog stop
/usr/sbin/service bmc-watchdog start

All in all this is very weird behaviour. Is it possible a newer version of
bmc-watchdog would address this? i.e. is this a known bug?

Any other ideas why this is happening (or how I can debug further)?

Regards,
Rob