Re: [Freeipmi-users] bmc-config -o not dumping the whole config

[Albert Chu]

Glad it works.  I hope Redhat can fix this situation eventually.  It's
truly awful.

Al

On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 01:01 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> I was just about to respond to my own message that I tested both old and 
> new freeipmi versions on old and new install and found that on centos 5 
> things work fine regardless of freeipmi version and on centos 6 things 
> don't work also regardless of the freeipmi version pointing to the OS as 
> the culprit.
> 
> After reading the FAQ entry I installed OpenIPMI to get the init script, 
> started it to get /dev/ipmi0 and now bmc-config works as expected. Not 
> an ideal situation I agree.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer this helped me a lot!
> 
> Regards,
>    Dennis
> 
> On 30.01.2014 00:05, Albert Chu wrote:
> > Actually ... this might be your problem.
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-faq.html#Why-am-I-seeing-so-many-_0027internal-IPMI-error_0027-or-_0027driver-busy_0027-messages_003f
> >
> > I've complained to Redhat about this heavily.
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 00:02 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>   > If I had to guess, it's possible the onboard IPMI is getting
> >>   > overwhelmed and things are internally causing errors (thus the
> >>   > randomness).
> >>   >
> >>   > Could you post the --debug output, and maybe we can get to the bottom
> >>   > of this.
> >>
> >> Sorry for not getting back earlier with a response. I tried dumping the
> >> config with --debug and now it aborts with these kinds of error messages
> >> at random points during the output depending on where it aborts:
> >>
> >> ipmi_cmd_get_user_name: internal IPMI error
> >>
> >> ipmi_cmd_get_lan_configuration_parameters_authentication_type_enables:
> >> internal IPMI error
> >>
> >> fiid_obj_get: 'cipher_suite_id_entry_A': data not available
> >>
> >> On an older installation (centos 5) on the same hardware with freeipmi
> >> 1.0.2 I cannot reproduce this issue. I'm going to build a package with
> >> 1.0.2 for the newer installations (centos 6) to see if this fixes the
> >> issues there as well. This might give an indication if there is
> >> something wrong with the systems/bios/etc. or freeipmi.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>     Dennis
> >>
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Albert Chu
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