Re: [Freeipmi-users] problem with freeipmi 0.5.3 and intel SE7221BK1-E

[Chris Morgan]

On Jan 23, 2008 2:50 PM, Al Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey Chris,
>
> Well, there are a few interesting things.
>
> A) everything that returned "C2" indicates that lun != 0x0 is a bad lun.
> (C2 == command invalid for given lun). So my initial guess was wrong,
> but that's ok, that removes one possibility.
>
> B)
>
> address@hidden:~# ipmi-raw --no-probing -D SSIF --driver-address=0x42
> > --driver-device=/dev/i2c-0 --register-spacing=1 --debug 0x0 0x0A 0x20
> > ipmi-ssif-api-udm.c: 158: ipmi_ssif_cmd_raw_udm: errnum (4): expression 
> > failed
> > ipmi_cmd_raw: permission denied
>
> This is strange, because this is supposed to be the same as:
>
> > ================================================================
> > [ VALUE               TAG NAME:LENGTH                          ]
> > ================================================================
> > [              20h] = cmd[ 8b]
> > ================================================================
> > ================================================================
> > [ VALUE               TAG NAME:LENGTH                          ]
> > ================================================================
> > [               0h] = cmd[ 8b]
> > [               0h] = comp_code[ 8b]
> > [               0h] = sdr_version_major[ 4b]
> > [               0h] = sdr_version_minor[ 4b]
> > [               0h] = record_count[16b]
> > [               0h] = free_space[16b]
> > [               0h] = most_recent_addition_timestamp[32b]
> > [               0h] = most_recent_erase_timestamp[32b]
> > [               0h] =
> get_sdr_repository_allocation_info_command_supported[ 1b]
> > [               0h] = reserve_sdr_repository_command_supported[ 1b]
> > [               0h] = partial_add_sdr_command_supported[ 1b]
> > [               0h] = delete_sdr_command_supported[ 1b]
> > [               0h] = reserved[ 1b]
> > [               0h] =
> > modal_non_modal_sdr_repository_update_operation_supported[ 2b]
> > [               0h] = overflow_flag[ 1b]
> > ================================================================
>
> which you sent me earlier.  It could be that ipmi-raw doesn't work b/c
> the raw commands desire to read all bytes available rather than a
> specific number of bytes.  So it could confuse the underlying driver.
> No biggie in the end.
>
> Could you run ipmi-sensors just one more time for kicks to see if we get
> the same output (run w/ -f one time first, to flush the cache that may
> have been created beforehand.)
>


address@hidden:~# ipmi-sensors -f --debug
flushing cache... done
address@hidden:~# ipmi-sensors --debug
ipmi-locate-smbios.c: 385: ipmi_locate_smbios_get_dev_info: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 681: ipmi_ioremap: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 720: ipmi_get_physical_mem_data: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 918: ipmi_acpi_get_table: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 681: ipmi_ioremap: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 720: ipmi_get_physical_mem_data: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 839: ipmi_acpi_get_rsdp: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 1034: ipmi_acpi_get_firmware_table: errno
(0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 681: ipmi_ioremap: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 720: ipmi_get_physical_mem_data: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 918: ipmi_acpi_get_table: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 681: ipmi_ioremap: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 720: ipmi_get_physical_mem_data: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 839: ipmi_acpi_get_rsdp: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 1034: ipmi_acpi_get_firmware_table: errno
(0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 681: ipmi_ioremap: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 720: ipmi_get_physical_mem_data: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 918: ipmi_acpi_get_table: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 681: ipmi_ioremap: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 720: ipmi_get_physical_mem_data: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 839: ipmi_acpi_get_rsdp: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 1034: ipmi_acpi_get_firmware_table: errno
(0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 681: ipmi_ioremap: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 720: ipmi_get_physical_mem_data: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 918: ipmi_acpi_get_table: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 681: ipmi_ioremap: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 720: ipmi_get_physical_mem_data: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 839: ipmi_acpi_get_rsdp: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 1034: ipmi_acpi_get_firmware_table: errno
(0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 681: ipmi_ioremap: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 720: ipmi_get_physical_mem_data: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 918: ipmi_acpi_get_table: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 681: ipmi_ioremap: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 720: ipmi_get_physical_mem_data: errno (0):
expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 839: ipmi_acpi_get_rsdp: errno (0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 1034: ipmi_acpi_get_firmware_table: errno
(0): expression failed
ipmi-locate-acpi-spmi.c: 1239: ipmi_locate_acpi_spmi_get_dev_info:
errno (0): expression failed
Fetching SDR repository information...
================================================================
[ VALUE               TAG NAME:LENGTH                          ]
================================================================
[              20h] = cmd[ 8b]
================================================================
================================================================
[ VALUE               TAG NAME:LENGTH                          ]
================================================================
[               0h] = cmd[ 8b]
[               0h] = comp_code[ 8b]
[               0h] = sdr_version_major[ 4b]
[               0h] = sdr_version_minor[ 4b]
[               0h] = record_count[16b]
[               0h] = free_space[16b]
[               0h] = most_recent_addition_timestamp[32b]
[               0h] = most_recent_erase_timestamp[32b]
[               0h] = get_sdr_repository_allocation_info_command_supported[ 1b]
[               0h] = reserve_sdr_repository_command_supported[ 1b]
[               0h] = partial_add_sdr_command_supported[ 1b]
[               0h] = delete_sdr_command_supported[ 1b]
[               0h] = reserved[ 1b]
[               0h] =
modal_non_modal_sdr_repository_update_operation_supported[ 2b]
[               0h] = overflow_flag[ 1b]
================================================================
done
================================================================
[ VALUE               TAG NAME:LENGTH                          ]
================================================================
[              22h] = cmd[ 8b]
================================================================
================================================================
[ VALUE               TAG NAME:LENGTH                          ]
================================================================
[               0h] = cmd[ 8b]
[               0h] = comp_code[ 8b]
[               0h] = reservation_id[16b]
================================================================
================================================================
[ VALUE               TAG NAME:LENGTH                          ]
================================================================
[              23h] = cmd[ 8b]
[               0h] = reservation_id[16b]
[               0h] = record_id[16b]
[               0h] = offset_into_record[ 8b]
[               5h] = bytes_to_read[ 8b]
================================================================
================================================================
[ VALUE               TAG NAME:LENGTH                          ]
================================================================
[               0h] = cmd[ 8b]
[               0h] = comp_code[ 8b]
[               0h] = next_record_id[16b]
[  BYTE ARRAY ... ] = record_data[255B]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
[ 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h 00h ]
================================================================
FAILED: Retrieval of SDR record 0x0
SDR Cache creation failed: internal error




> Now, the question we now ask is why are most of the tools working (bmc-
> info, bmc-config, pef-config, ipmi-chassis, i'm not sure if you've tried
> ipmipower or ipmiping yet), but anything related to the SDR/sensors is
> not working b/c the IPMI commands return junk.  I suppose its possible
> on this motherboard they just aren't supported?  Do you know if your
> vendor has asserted that ipmi based sensors are available on this
> motherboard or other tools do work?
>

You know, I think the vendor does claim that but I've never had any
experience with ipmi before until getting these servers. I was under
the impression that the only way to get detailed board information was
via ipmi. I tried using lm-sensors previously and I believe I only got
information about things like fan speeds, no temperature or voltage
values etc.


> I'd also like to see how ipmi-sensors, ipmi-fru and ipmi-sel work w/o
> using the SDR.  I will send you a tar.gz (out of this thread) later on
> in the day to try this idea out with some new options in the tools.
>

Ok. I'd be happy to try those out to provide any additional information.

Chris