Hey Al, Thank you for a quick response and a patch. As soon as the beta is up I'll test it out and let you know.
Thanks! -- peter On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:21:11 -0800, Al Chu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Peter, > > I think I figured it out, I introduced a sequence number wrap around bug > in 0.8.1 when I was "cleaning up" some code. Most motherboards don't > have anywhere near the number of sensors that the Dell ones do, so they > never reach that point. I'll put up a beta tar.gz tomorrow. > > Al > > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 16:44 -0800, Al Chu wrote: >> Hi Peter, >> >> > First of all let me thank you for the great work that you and other >> > developers are doing, this is truly a very helpful tool. >> >> You're definitely welcome. >> >> > I was thinking of submitting this problem through the GNU FreeIPMI >> > project bugs page but did not see any activity there so decided to >> > mail you directly. I hope that that is OK. >> >> No problem, but in the future it's best to e-mail the >> [email protected] list (I'm CCing it now). >> >> > Now to the problem. When running ipmi-* tools that can generate SDR >> > cache >> > such as ipmimonitoring and ipmi-sensors with driver type (-D LAN_2_0), >> > the >> > SDR cache generation freezes after some record and then gives the >> > following >> > error, 'ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error'. >> >> That's definitely not good. >> >> > After the error I can rerun the command with driver type LAN, and >> > everything succeeds. From that point on I can use driver type LAN_2_0 >> > again >> > and everything will work fine. So it looks like that only SDR cache >> > generation does not seem to work with LAN_2_0 driver. Just for testing >> > I >> > ran a similar command to read the SDR data using ipmitool and using >> > ipmitool's equivalent of LAN_2_0 and everything seemed to work fine. >> > >> > I have observed this behavior on Dell PowerEdge R300, R610 and R710. >> > And at >> > every run the error will be generated after the same SDR record for >> > each >> > platform. Below are the errors for each one of those server types: >> >> Luckily, I have a PowerEdge R610 and I've reproduced the bug. I need to >> figure this out, it's definitely odd. It does appear to be specific to >> the Dell motherboards. I'm not sure what the issue is. >> >> Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'll look into it and get back >> to you. >> >> Al >> >> > >> > >> > R300 (DRAC5): >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > Caching SDR record 61 of 80 (current record ID 61) >> > >> > ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > >> > >> > R610 (iDRAC): >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > Caching SDR record 58 of 124 (current record ID 58) >> > >> > ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > >> > >> > R710 (iDRAC): >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > Caching SDR record 59 of 115 (current record ID 59) >> > >> > ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > >> > >> > If you have a time and opportunity to look at this problem is there >> > >> > anything I can provide you with that will make this task easier? >> >> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 15:47 -0800, Peter Bisroev wrote: >> > Hello Albert, >> > >> > >> > >> > My name is Peter Bisroev and I am using the FreeIPMI package to monitor >> > a >> > >> > number of DELL servers from a scripted environment. >> > >> > >> > >> > First of all let me thank you for the great work that you and other >> > >> > developers are doing, this is truly a very helpful tool. I was thinking >> > of >> > >> > submitting this problem through the GNU FreeIPMI project bugs page but >> > did >> > >> > not see any activity there so decided to mail you directly. I hope that >> > >> > that is OK. >> > >> > >> > >> > Now to the problem. When running ipmi-* tools that can generate SDR >> > cache >> > >> > such as ipmimonitoring and ipmi-sensors with driver type (-D LAN_2_0), >> > the >> > >> > SDR cache generation freezes after some record and then gives the >> > following >> > >> > error, 'ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error'. >> > >> > >> > >> > After the error I can rerun the command with driver type LAN, and >> > >> > everything succeeds. From that point on I can use driver type LAN_2_0 >> > again >> > >> > and everything will work fine. So it looks like that only SDR cache >> > >> > generation does not seem to work with LAN_2_0 driver. Just for testing >> > I >> > >> > ran a similar command to read the SDR data using ipmitool and using >> > >> > ipmitool's equivalent of LAN_2_0 and everything seemed to work fine. >> > >> > >> > >> > I have observed this behavior on Dell PowerEdge R300, R610 and R710. >> > And at >> > >> > every run the error will be generated after the same SDR record for >> > each >> > >> > platform. Below are the errors for each one of those server types: >> > >> > >> > >> > R300 (DRAC5): >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > Caching SDR record 61 of 80 (current record ID 61) >> > >> > ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > >> > >> > R610 (iDRAC): >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > Caching SDR record 58 of 124 (current record ID 58) >> > >> > ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > >> > >> > R710 (iDRAC): >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > Caching SDR record 59 of 115 (current record ID 59) >> > >> > ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error >> > >> > -------------------------------- >> > >> > >> > >> > If you have a time and opportunity to look at this problem is there >> > >> > anything I can provide you with that will make this task easier? >> > >> > >> > >> > PS: I would be more than happy to submit a patch for the problem but my >> > >> > knowledge of IPMI protocol is almost non existent so that is not an >> > option >> > >> > for the meantime. >> > >> > >> > >> > Thanks you. >> > >> > >> > >> > Best Regards, >> > >> > Peter >> > >> > _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
