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openipmi package

  1. Bug #1716517
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1716517

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Manoj Iyer (manjo) wrote :

- openipmi on Power9 system -

-- With stock openipmi from bionic archives --

ubuntu@dradis:~$ sudo apt install openipmi

ubuntu@dradis:~$ sudo service openipmi status
● openipmi.service - LSB: OpenIPMI Driver init script
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/openipmi; generated)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

ubuntu@dradis:~$ lsmod | grep ipmi
ipmi_powernv 6361 0
ipmi_devintf 12691 0
ipmi_msghandler 58145 2 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_powernv
ubuntu@dradis:~$

ubuntu@dradis:~$ sudo service openipmi stop
ubuntu@dradis:~$ sudo service openipmi start
Job for openipmi.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status openipmi.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
ubuntu@dradis:~$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
Jun 12 18:34:41 dradis systemd[1]: message repeated 2 times: [ Reloading.]
Jun 12 18:34:58 dradis systemd[1]: Starting LSB: OpenIPMI Driver init script...
Jun 12 18:34:58 dradis openipmi[6594]: * Starting ipmi drivers
Jun 12 18:34:58 dradis kernel: [ 4344.111714] IPMI System Interface driver.
Jun 12 18:34:58 dradis kernel: [ 4344.111847] ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
Jun 12 18:34:58 dradis openipmi[6594]: ...fail!
Jun 12 18:34:58 dradis openipmi[6594]: ...done.
Jun 12 18:34:58 dradis systemd[1]: openipmi.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 12 18:34:58 dradis systemd[1]: openipmi.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 12 18:34:58 dradis systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: OpenIPMI Driver init script.

-- After installing the patched openipmi package --

ubuntu@dradis:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-power-triage/lp1716517-openipmi
ubuntu@dradis:~$ sudo apt install openipmi
ubuntu@dradis:~$ sudo service openipmi stop
ubuntu@dradis:~$ sudo service openipmi start

ubuntu@dradis:~$ sudo service openipmi status
● openipmi.service - LSB: OpenIPMI Driver init script
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/openipmi; generated)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2018-06-12 18:30:38 UTC; 7s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 5461 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/openipmi start (code=exited, status=0/SUCC

Jun 12 18:30:38 dradis systemd[1]: Starting LSB: OpenIPMI Driver init script...
Jun 12 18:30:38 dradis openipmi[5461]: * Starting ipmi drivers
Jun 12 18:30:38 dradis openipmi[5461]: ...done.
Jun 12 18:30:38 dradis systemd[1]: Started LSB: OpenIPMI Driver init script.

ubuntu@dradis:~$ lsmod | grep ipmi
ipmi_powernv 6361 0
ipmi_devintf 12691 0
ipmi_msghandler 58145 2 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_powernv
ubuntu@dradis:~$