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

[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 there).

Al

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 05:30 -0700, Dave Love wrote:
> Al Chu <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > (Naturally, I added "confirmed to work around" based on the assumption
> > you guys can confirm it for me :-)
> 
> I can't confirm it on either x4100 -- not x4100m2 -- (RedHat 5) or x4500
> (Solaris).  In each case, the daemon reports:
> 
>   timer stopped by another process
>   stopping bmc-watchdog daemon
> 
> Under Solaris, SMF restarts the daemon anyway, so it kind-of works, but
> not under RedHat.
> 
> I'm running it as
> 
>   /usr/sbin/bmc-watchdog -d -u 4 -p 0 -a 1 -F -P -L -S -O -i 900 -e 60 -D 
> openipmi -W ignorestateflag
> 
> says ps, where I need the -D on x4100 or x4200m2 to avoid 
> 
>   bmc-watchdog:  Get Watchdog Timer Error: BMC Busy
> 
> Ii think I have the latest firmware in each case -- some version of
> 2.0.2.5.
> 
> I wonder what's different between me and Frank.  I don't have time to
> investigate immediately, but I'll try to later.
> 
> By the way, I know I'm running the right version as it accepts
> ignorestateflag.  However, bmc-watchdog doesn't accept --version, though
> it's in the --help output.
> 
> By the way 2, I noticed that it's still using GPLv2, not v3.  Is that an
> oversight, or because the copyrights don't allow it?
-- 
Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory