Re: [Freeipmi-devel] ipmi-sensors crash

[Al Chu]

Ping me after the new year and we can look at it more.  I'd like to see
the debug output of a --bridge-sensors with one of those ambient
sensors.

That's the one I expected to work.  Not what's going on.  Could be some
subtle bug ... or possibly an internal timeout or something.

Al

On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 14:33 +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> Albert Chu <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 11:56 +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> >> I realized that the system that caused the crash has 601 sensors; really.
> >> Patch attached.
> >
> > Well how about that :-)
> 
> I should have apologized for not looking properly to start with, as the
> stack had been smashed.
> 
> > Could you try running w/ --bridge-sensors
> 
> That's _very_ slow, and still gives N/A.
> 
> > or the 'assumebmcowner'
> > workaround.  The sensor isn't owned by the BMC, leading to the N/A.
> 
> The workaround doesn't make any difference.
> 
> I don't know how it's done on the system, and I'm not sure we have
> useful technical docs, but the individual BMCs in the component boxes
> all report the sensors in all four boxes as far as I can tell.
> 
> This is a bit of an annoyance for our monitoring, but not a big deal,
> but I can look again in the new year if you would like to address it.
-- 
Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory