Re: [Freeipmi-devel] ipmi-sensors crash

[Dave Love]

Al Chu <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Huh ... I'm sorta at a loss.  The state_data->prog_data data structure
> is pretty core.  It's set once near the beginning in main and never
> written to again once the main code is executed,

The stack trace did suggest something had stomped on it.  I'll try to
find time to have a proper look at it sometime.

> which may include
>  threads if you're doing hostranges.  Dunno if the threading could be
> part of the problem for your unique system.

This was just the one host, and gdb only showed one thread.

> For kicks, another fellow on the mailing recently had a segv problem and
> it appeared it was related to this.  Possible for you too?
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-faq.html#Why-am-I-seeing-so-many-_0027internal-IPMI-error_0027-or-_0027driver-busy_0027-messages_003f

I got the same thing out-of-band, which I assume would be independent of
the kernel.  That's useful information, though, as I tend to turn off
the ipmi service.