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

[Albert Chu]

Hey Robert,

That is indeed strange.  Does the bmc-watchdog log say anything? (I
can't remember the exact location, but I think it's /var/log/freeipmi/
something).

Al

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:14 -0800, Robert Hardy wrote:
> 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
> 
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