Hi Mark, Are you sure you have BMCs in all your systems? Based on your system message log, it appears that you may not (except maybe in that one AMD box :-). Do all your systems show IPMI devices with dmidecode?
The ipmi device driver and ipmitool are two separate things so installing a new ipmitool version should not affect the driver's success or failure to find a BMC on your system. Thanks, :-) Carol On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 14:01 -0400, Mark Seger wrote: > I found something and I think this is pretty serious. I found that > /etc/sysconfig/ipmi on the systems that the service wouldn't start on > looked nothing like that file on systems it would start on! In > particular, changing the lines: > > IPMI_SI=yes > DEV_IPMI=yes > > to > > IPMI_SI=1 > DEV_IPMI=1 > > now allows ipmi to start, but the device /dev/ipmi0 isn't getting > created. Close digging shows that the ipmitool-1-8.8 rpm was installed > and I didn't realize it and so just installed 1-8.9 on top of it. Is > that where my problems are coming from? > -mark > > Mark Seger wrote: > > I've installed ipmitool on about 1/2 dozen machines, each a different > > type, all running redhat distros. On one of them, an amd box running > > rhel4.2, it starts just fine but on all the other systems, some AMD some > > not it won't start and the only indication is the command 'service ipmi > > start' returns 'Failed'. If it look at the end of /var/log/messages all > > it says is: > > > > Jul 7 09:35:07 sandbox227 kernel: ipmi message handler version 39.1 > > Jul 7 09:35:07 sandbox227 kernel: IPMI System Interface driver. > > Jul 7 09:35:07 sandbox227 kernel: ipmi_si: Unable to find any System > > Interface(s) > > > > When I run the configure command to initially build I see at the very end: > > > > ipmitool 1.8.9 > > > > Interfaces > > lan : yes > > lanplus : yes > > open : yes > > free : no > > imb : yes > > bmc : no > > lipmi : no > > > > Extra tools > > ipmievd : yes > > > > on both the systems it runs on as well as one it doesn't. any > > suggestion how to track the problem down? > > > > -mark > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > > _______________________________________________ > > Ipmitool-devel mailing list > > Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _______________________________________________ > Ipmitool-devel mailing list > Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
