On 13/03/2016 14:58, Gordan Bobic wrote: > On 13/03/16 14:20, Michael Howard wrote: >> On 13/03/2016 07:34, Gordan Bobic wrote: >>> Does anyone have any input on what (if any) lm_sensors drivers can be >>> used? Probing tends to result in crashing the machine. Is there >>> something other than ipmi available? >> You'll probably find it's the default kernel causing the crash, it'll >> likely work with your new kernel, it does here. > > No, still causes a crash: > Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): > Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f > Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... > Message from syslogd at orcone at Mar 13 14:34:18 ... > kernel:Internal error: : 96000010 [#1] SMP > > Some systems (mainly servers) implement IPMI, a set of common interfaces > through which system health data may be retrieved, amongst other things. > We first try to get the information from SMBIOS. If we don't find it > there, we have to read from arbitrary I/O ports to probe for such > interfaces. This is normally safe. Do you want to scan for IPMI > interfaces? (YES/no): > # DMI data unavailable, please consider installing dmidecode 2.7 > # or later for better results. > Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0... > Message from syslogd at orcone at Mar 13 14:51:42 ... > kernel:Internal error: : 96000010 [#1] SMP > > So it seems the sensors aren't there, and proving the various I/O > ranges causes a crash. > > Still it would be nice to get "ipmitool sensor" working locally. > # ipmitool sensor > Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: > No such file or directory > Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: > No such file or directory > Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: > No such file or directory > Get Device ID command failed > Unable to open SDR for reading > > Is there a driver that I missed? This may be a compatibility issue with ipmitools package, the protocol is clearly compatible though. I guess you can't load the ipmi_si module? I created /dev/ipmi0 manually but it made no difference to the error displayed. -- Mike Howard