I'm running bmc-watchdog 0.7.15-2 under a current Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit on several fairly new unloaded Supermicro servers.
On only one (always the same server) of four servers the bmc-watchdog process quietly exits shortly after start up leaving the system setup for a hard reset shortly after bootup. The options and builds are identical on all of the servers. These are my options: OPTIONS="-d -u 2 -p 0 -a 1 -F -P -L -S -O -i 300 -e 60" Through debugging I've confirmed on boot up: - The init script gets run - It launches bmc-watchdog saves a new PID correctly in /var/run/bmc-watchdog.pid. - Checking for a bmc-watchdog process in rc.local shows it isn't running and the timer is counting down. - There is no shutdown message logged when the process disappears during bootup. - There are no messages suggesting the process was killed On shutdown the init script gets as far as removing /var/run/bmc-watchdog.pid and seems to work fine. If I stuff this in rc.local the bmc-watchdog starts up properly and never seems to die again until the next reboot: /usr/sbin/service bmc-watchdog stop /usr/sbin/service bmc-watchdog start All in all this is very weird behaviour. Is it possible a newer version of bmc-watchdog would address this? i.e. is this a known bug? Any other ideas why this is happening (or how I can debug further)? Regards, Rob _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
