On 13/03/16 15:57, Michael Howard wrote: > 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. # modprobe ipmi_si modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'ipmi_si': No such device So I'm wondering if a different driver is needed. Or a patch for this one. Gordan