On Thursday 11 March 2010, mark wrote:
Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
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Seems to me that the IPMI driver can't find the IPMI hardware. What kind of server are you trying this on? Is it known to work with the IPMI-driver in vanilla CentOS-5.4?
<snip> You seem to have missed the beginning of my original post, where I said that it had been running fine for 10 days, then *stopped* working.
Ooops, indeed, sorry for that :-)
That leaves, at least, two possibilities 1) the BMC is flaky (power cycle machine or maybe even replace the BMC) 2) kernel driver messed up.
If it's the driver then, assuming you havn't already, try to unload the ipmi stuff. Essentially "lsmod | grep ipmi" and the rmmod those. A "service ipmi restart" should probably automate this for you.
Since you're focusing on the "in system" approach I assume you lack an ethernet connection to the BMC? ...if not try to reach it that way.
/Peter
The server's still up, though I haven't been into the data center to see if the idiot red led "fault light" is blinking on (and that has no blink code, just "there's a problem" is what the docs say).
mark