Hey Frank, This is indeed very strange. I assume the reboots are because the timer eventually times out, perhaps because the resets are no longer working (lets say the BMC goes out to lunch).
Does the bmc-watchdog log say anything interesting? Normally it's /var/log/freeipmi/bmc-watchdog.log. Al On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 23:36 -0700, Frank Steiner wrote: > Frank Steiner wrote > > > 2) The really bad thing was three of the X4100M2 being rebooted by the > > watchdog as reaction to a "bmc-watchdog -s -k" call I guess. The > > timer runs 15 minutes and I reset the watchdog by to independent > > instances every 3 minutes. On all three machines I found this in > > the logs: > > Running some tests I can say for sure that the x4100M2 ILOMs are really > really bad :-( When running a while-true loop for "bmc-watchdog -s -k", > the x4100M2 will shutdown after at latest 2 hours and stay powered-off. > When running the loop with "bmc-watchdog -r" it takes 5-6 hours but > then the machine is powered off, too. > > Kind of strange watchdog that can shutdown the machine when you reset it :-( > Another thing for Sun to fix... > > cu, > Frank > > -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
