On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 08:02:32AM -0700, Andy Cress wrote: >> Steffen, >> >> Sounds like a firmware bug to me. Is there a later firmware version for >> this board? > > Nothing I'm aware of - as I said, those boxen are 6 years old now. > > Looking for an explanation of the IPMI behaviour, I found that "chassis > power soft" is connected with a sysctl named IPMI_CHASSIS_CTL_ACPI_SOFT, > and Debian Wheezy's kernel doesn't have any /proc/acpi structure anymore > (and supposedly, some other acpi functionality probably has moved as well) > - that's why the expected shutdown doesn't happen... Why there's an > "alarm" being set that wakes up the machine after 24 hours, that's > still unknown, probably there's a date-less clock in the BMC? (Cutting > power, and re-connecting to mains, doesn't change the behaviour.) > > With Squeeze kernels, everything worked. I would't expect "buggy" > (or old) firmware to interact with kernels in such a way, and an > suspecting a bug in the tg3 driver instead :( Got to UTS, I guess. >
Have you considered possibility this might be a kernel bug? Have you tried vanilla kernel instead of Debian stock kernel? Or compare kernel configs to guess/bisect the problem? May be it's just some missing kernel feature that wasn't compiled in. Things do get broken, even in kernel. Regards, Z. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steffen Grunewald [mailto:steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de] >> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 9:02 AM >> To: FAI mailing list >> Cc: ipmitool developers list >> Subject: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI problem with FAI and wheezy >> >> 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 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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. 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