Al Chu wrote >> Maybe a little warning from the bmc-watchdog binary when ipmi kernel modules >> are loaded when running on a Sun machine could help others to avoid this? > > I'm not really sure what kind of error message could be portable and/or > reasonable. From the perspective of most FreeIPMI software, any > driver/mechanism to reach the BMC card is ok. If the OpenIPMI driver is > available, it can use it.
I think I have misunderstood your reply to Dave. I thought that the sun BMCs had general problems whenever the kernel modules are loaded. > I'm not sure why (in this case) using the OpenIPMI kernel driver didn't > work. Did you get any other error messages? The predominant issue that I just figured out what was wrong: When calling "/etc/init.d/ipmi start" I can use "-D OPENIPMI". After calling "/etc/init.d/ipmi stop" I can use bmc-watchdog without -D. Problem here was that starting lm_sensors from the runlevel loads only some of the ipmi kernel modules. Not enough to make "-D openipmi" work, but enough to cause many delays and "busy" problems when calling bmc-watchdog without -D. Thus: loading all or none ipmi kernel modules works (with/without -D), but only some of them causes both methods to fail. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
