Re: [Freeipmi-users] Freeipmi 0.6.4 (and 0.7.12) hang on Intel SR2600

[Al Chu]

Hey Wayne,

That's quite odd.  So after some time that the machine is up, you can't
run ipmi-sensors anymore??  Here's some thoughts/questions.

1) Are you loading/using the Linux IPMI kernel driver w/ FreeIPMI and/or
ipmitool?

2) Could you run an strace on the command when it isn't working?  One
idea I have (if you are not using the Linux IPMI kernel driver) is that
multiple FreeIPMI tools could be running simultaneously and one is
holding the semaphore for in-band communication via KCS.

3) If you built from the tar.gz, you can turn on extra debugging by
doing "--enable-debug --enable-trace" on the ./configure line.  That
would get us way more information ("internal error" maps to a ton of
possible conditions).

Al

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 12:44 -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> Hoping that you can offer advice as to what's wrong.  Have used freeipmi
> in the past on other motherboards/servers.  On this newer Nehalem server
> freeipmi starts out OK, but after some hours stops working.  However, it
> seems that "ipmitool sensor" continues to work.  Would rather use
> freeipmi.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> :~ # ipmi-sensors
> SDR Cache '/root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-.localhost' invalid:
> Please flush the cache and regenerate it
> :~ # ipmi-sensors -f
> Flushing cache: /root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-.localhost
> :~ # ipmi-sensors --debug
> Caching SDR repository information:
> /root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-.localhost
> =====================================================
> Get SDR Repository Info Request
> =====================================================
> [ 20h] = cmd[ 8b]
> =====================================================
> Get SDR Repository Info Response
> =====================================================
> ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error
> :~ #
> 
> 
> 
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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory