Re: [Freeipmi-users] FreeIPMI-0.3.0 on FreeBSD 6.1 [ipmi/rmcp ping an ipmiconsole fails to compile]

[Dmitry Frolov]

* Tejram Meena <address@hidden> [11.12.2006 15:15]:

> On Monday 11 December 2006 14:01, you wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the latest patched port,  All the earlier problem with 
> freeipmi are now sorted. This port is working fine on almost all IBM 
> machines(x series) i have tested, but ipmi-sensors have a problem on Intel 
> machine.  

Thank You very much for your reports and testing!

> 
> Intel Machine Specification:
> SMBIOS 2.3 present
> Base Board Product Name: SE7520JR23S
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (2992.51-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf41  Stepping = 1
> 
> IPMI Device: Interface type: SSIF

SSIF isn't supported with FreeIPMI on FreeBSD for now AFAIK :-(

> 
> Kdump of ktrace of ipmi-sensors on INtel Machine:
> 28780 ipmi-sensors RET   read 4096/0x1000
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  close(0x3)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   close 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  access(0x7fffffffe59f,0x7)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors NAMI  "/root"
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   access 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  open(0x520380,0,0x1b6)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors NAMI  
> "/root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-app210.127.0.0.1"
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   open 3
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  fstat(0x3,0x7fffffffe9a0)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   fstat 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  read(0x3,0x523000,0x1000)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors GIO   fd 3 read 0 bytes
>        ""
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   read 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  write(0x2,0x7fffffffe390,0x28)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors GIO   fd 2 wrote 40 bytes
>        "FAILED: _fread_record: Invalid argument
>        "

I've seen these same errors with empty cache files. This is due to not
checking enough for EOF in the code and is harmless.

>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   write 40/0x28
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  close(0x3)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   close 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  open(0x520380,0x601,0x1b6)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors NAMI  
> "/root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-app210.127.0.0.1"
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   open 3
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  write(0x2,0x413e90,0x27)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors GIO   fd 2 wrote 39 bytes
>        "Fetching SDR repository information... "
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   write 39/0x27
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  semop(0x10003,0x8007aff06,0x1)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   semop 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  nanosleep(0x7fffffffe890,0)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   nanosleep 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  nanosleep(0x7fffffffe890,0)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   nanosleep 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  nanosleep(0x7fffffffe890,0)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   nanosleep 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  nanosleep(0x7fffffffe890,0)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   nanosleep 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  nanosleep(0x7fffffffe890,0)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   nanosleep 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  nanosleep(0x7fffffffe890,0)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   nanosleep 0
>  28780 ipmi-sensors CALL  nanosleep(0x7fffffffe890,0)
>  28780 ipmi-sensors RET   nanosleep 0
> 
> Note: It goes in a repeated loop , nanosleep due to some reason in both 
> ipmi-sensors and bmc-info.

It does polling, checking for some condition each small fraction of time.
That's OK, I think.

> 
> Sorry for the late response, i was out for the weekend 
> Thanks
> Tejram Meena
> 
> > * Dmitry Frolov <address@hidden> [07.12.2006 12:20]:
> > > Tejram, can You please try this port, it contains patch for another two
> > > mentioned problems:
> > >
> > > http://kaya.nov.net/tmp/freeipmi-0.3.0_1-port.tar.gz
> >
> > Tejram, is there something new about that? I'm awaiting your response,
> > to be sure the patch realy works. I have no amd64 test machine with IPMI
> > to test this.
> >
> > If You can't test this port for some reason, please tell me, I'll
> > just go ahead and ask developers to commit FreeBSD patch.

    wbr&w, dmitry.
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Dmitry Frolov <address@hidden>
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