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

[Albert Chu]

Hey Robert,

> That message points me to the real problem. Let's hope a bios update 
> fixes the watchdog weirdness.

Glad things are being reported correctly now.  Yeah, not sure what could
be going wrong underneath the covers in the firmware.  Hopefully a
firmware update can fix things.

Al

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 13:49 -0800, Robert Hardy wrote:
> On 2011-02-01 8:48 PM, Albert Chu wrote:
> > Hey Robert,
> >
> > The following beta release has a bmc-watchdog that has (hopefully) fixed
> > logging.
> >
> > http://download.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-1.0.2.beta2.tar.gz
> >
> > If you could check it out, that'd be great.
> >
> > Al
> 
> Sorry for the delay, things got busy. I just tested a local build of 
> 1.0.2-beta2.
> 
> I now get this error message on the machine in question:
> [Feb 07 16:44:12]: Error: watchdog timer must be stopped before running 
> daemon
> 
> I haven't done anything different on this box than the other three so I 
> doubt I'm running the IPMI kernel driver.
> 
> That message points me to the real problem. Let's hope a bios update 
> fixes the watchdog weirdness.
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 
> 
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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory