Re: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI problem with FAI and wheezy

2012-11-12 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 03:02:05PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > 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). > > E

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI problem with FAI and wheezy

2012-09-11 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:40:01AM -0700, Albert Chu wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 10:32 -0700, Andy Cress wrote: > > For this symptom: > > > 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 > > -

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI problem with FAI and wheezy

2012-09-10 Thread Albert Chu
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 10:32 -0700, Andy Cress wrote: > For this symptom: > > 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 sw

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI problem with FAI and wheezy

2012-09-10 Thread Andy Cress
For this symptom: > 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", the

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI problem with FAI and wheezy

2012-09-10 Thread Zdenek Styblik
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Steffen Grunewald 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. >

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI problem with FAI and wheezy

2012-09-10 Thread Steffen Grunewald
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 "cha

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI problem with FAI and wheezy

2012-09-07 Thread Andy Cress
Steffen, Sounds like a firmware bug to me. Is there a later firmware version for this board? Andy -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: [Ipmito