[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2011-01-14 Thread Albert Chu
Hey Frank, On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 05:12 -0800, Frank Steiner wrote: Al Chu wrote Maybe a little warning from the bmc-watchdog binary when ipmi kernel modules are loaded when running on a Sun machine could help others to avoid this? I'm not really sure what kind of error message

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-12-27 Thread Al Chu
Hi Frank, On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 06:53 -0800, Frank Steiner wrote: Dave Love wrote says ps, where I need the -D on x4100 or x4200m2 to avoid bmc-watchdog: Get Watchdog Timer Error: BMC Busy Just ran into this (and -D openipmi didn't work for me) and figured out that the

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-12-23 Thread Frank Steiner
Dave Love wrote says ps, where I need the -D on x4100 or x4200m2 to avoid bmc-watchdog: Get Watchdog Timer Error: BMC Busy Just ran into this (and -D openipmi didn't work for me) and figured out that the /etc/init.d/lm_sensors script loads the ipmi_si and ipmi_msghandler modules on our

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-09-09 Thread Frank Steiner
Frank Steiner wrote Btw., Sun has confirmed it's a bug that the state flag does not change. The 2nd level support has requested a firmware update for the ILOM, but it's not yet clear if it will be granted. Sun finally made it :-) They release a new ILOM firmware 2.0.2.10 for the

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-06-28 Thread Dave Love
I thought I'd replied to this before... Albert Chu ch...@llnl.gov writes: Just want to clarify, you're saying this sleep(5) makes it work on the 4100? Yes, to the limited extent I tested it, as I'm not interested in running it on x4100. However, it seemed to be running on the x4500

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-06-28 Thread Albert Chu
Hey Dave, Ok. I'll put a sleep(5) like workaround-addition into bmc-watchdog. Al On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 08:06 -0700, Dave Love wrote: I thought I'd replied to this before... Albert Chu ch...@llnl.gov writes: Just want to clarify, you're saying this sleep(5) makes it work on the 4100?

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-06-22 Thread Dave Love
[Sorry, I thought I sent this earlier, but I'm harassed and losing track.] Al Chu ch...@llnl.gov writes: --- bmc-watchdog.c 16 Jun 2010 17:52:38 - 1.131 +++ bmc-watchdog.c 17 Jun 2010 23:18:57 - @@ -1920,6 +1920,8 @@ _daemon_cmd (void) reset_period

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-06-22 Thread Dave Love
Al Chu ch...@llnl.gov writes: says ps, where I need the -D on x4100 or x4200m2 to avoid bmc-watchdog: Get Watchdog Timer Error: BMC Busy Yeah, I'm certainly unsure of that one. Have you tried running w/o the IPMI kernel driver? I'm wondering if they don't together for you (don't

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-06-22 Thread Albert Chu
Hey Dave, On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 15:57 -0700, Dave Love wrote: [Sorry, I thought I sent this earlier, but I'm harassed and losing track.] Al Chu ch...@llnl.gov writes: --- bmc-watchdog.c 16 Jun 2010 17:52:38 - 1.131 +++ bmc-watchdog.c 17 Jun 2010 23:18:57 - @@

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-06-18 Thread Al Chu
says ps, where I need the -D on x4100 or x4200m2 to avoid bmc-watchdog: Get Watchdog Timer Error: BMC Busy Yeah, I'm certainly unsure of that one. Have you tried running w/o the IPMI kernel driver? I'm wondering if they don't together for you (don't work together for me on some mobos

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-06-17 Thread Dave Love
Frank Steiner fsteiner-ma...@bio.ifi.lmu.de writes: Seems to work fine on my X4100 M2 machines :-) Starts up, reports status correctly, resets etc. Does it actually run indefinitely, though? I just realize I gave incomplete info, as I see it work for a few cycles. Here's a sample of the

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-06-17 Thread Al Chu
Hey Dave, Doh! The --version bug was due to me not understanding a subtlety in the argp library. Thanks for the catch. I've put up a new QA release with a fix in it. http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.8.8.beta0.tar.gz Hmm. I don't know much about the openipmi kernel

[Freeipmi-devel] Re: FreeIPMI beta w/ BMC watchdog workaround for Sun machines

2010-06-16 Thread Al Chu
Hey Frank, Great. I'll make sure this'll get into the FreeIPMI 0.8.7 release. Al On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 01:32 -0700, Frank Steiner wrote: Al Chu wrote Hi Frank, Dave, I finally got around to trying to develop that workaround into BMC watchdog to get around the issue on the Sun