Re: [Freeipmi-users] FreeIPMI-0.3.0 on FreeBSD 6.1: ipmi-sensors- sdr-cache directory initialization fails

[Anand Babu]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:08:23PM +0530, Tejram Meena wrote:
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| ipmi-sensors and ipmi-sel failed to automatically create sdr-cache
| directory and explicit option also does not help
| address@hidden ~/freeipmi]$ ipmi-sensors
| --sdr-cache-directory=/home/vcr/freeipmi ipmi-sensors: sdr cache
| directory setup failed
| 
| The ktrace output file and kdump output of ipmi-sensors is attached
|   4488 ipmi-sensors CALL  access(0x7fffffffeb48,0x7)
|   4488 ipmi-sensors NAMI  "4ëÿÿÿ"
|    4488 ipmi-sensors RET access -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
|   4488 ipmi-sensors CALL  mkdir(0x520380,0x1c0)
|   4488 ipmi-sensors NAMI  "/tmp/.freeipmi-vcr"
|   4488 ipmi-sensors RET   mkdir -1 errno 17 File exists
|   4488 ipmi-sensors CALL  write(0x2,0x7fffffffe470,0x2f)
|   4488 ipmi-sensors GIO   fd 2 wrote 47 bytes
|        "ipmi-sensors: sdr cache directory setup failed
|        "
|   4488 ipmi-sensors RET   write 47/0x2f
|   4488 ipmi-sensors CALL  exit(0x1)
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This is a bug. Thanks for helping us find it. In your case your home
dir of user "vcr" is not writable. So it opts for /tmp/.freeipmi-vcr
dir which already exist. Bug is, if it already exist, it should be
re-used. Instead it returns error. Bala is fixing it. We will make a
quick new release of this branch.

For time being you can try to remove /tmp.freeipmi-vcr by hand and run
ipmi-sensors. But problem is it will try to fetch SDR freshly every
time. Or you can make your home dir writable for time being.

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