Hey Robert, That is indeed strange. Does the bmc-watchdog log say anything? (I can't remember the exact location, but I think it's /var/log/freeipmi/ something).
Al On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:14 -0800, Robert Hardy wrote: > 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 -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
