Hi, I'm at my wits' end now with this old system, perhaps one of you can come up with another idea:
The hardware is somewhat old, SuperMicro H8SSL board with IPMI card (BMC) looped into eth0 (Broadcom Tigon3). Excerpts from the demsg file: [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.2.0-3-amd64 (Debian 3.2.23-1) (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-8) ) #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 02:45:17 UTC 2012 [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000000007ffe0290 000F4 (v03 A M I OEMFACP 12000606 MSFT 00000097) [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 000000007ffe0410 033A8 (v01 0ABSW 0ABSW005 00000005 INTL 02002026) [ 0.884954] tg3 0000:02:03.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A6) rev 2100] (PCIX:133MHz:64-bit) MAC address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx I used to set "console=ttyS1,19200n1" in the pxelinux.cfg file, and watch FAI running via serial-over-LAN, but that stops right at the beginning - and the IPMI card cannot be reached afterwards, not by rebooting, nor by applying other tricks. The only way to get the connection back is power- cycling the whole box. This behaviour did not show up with Squeeze (2.6.32-5 kernel). I'm suspecting a change in the handling of the eth0/BMC bridge by the tg3 driver, but that's only part of the story: it gets worse. Trying to shut down the machine (actually, a whole set of machines, all behaving the same, so it's not a single fault), by running "shutdown -h now", will not halt but reboot it. The only way to reliably switch it off seems to be to run "ipmitool chassis power soft", then "shutdown -h now". The machine will then stay off for exactly 24 hours, then magically restart. Needless to say I didn't change any BIOS settings, nor implemented kind of a watchdog on the BMC. Is there anything I can do to nail down the problem? Thank you in advance for your suggestions. Steffen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
