Re: [Freeipmi-users] Re: ipmiconsole hangs at [SOL established]

[Albert Chu]

Hi Amit,

On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 07:12 -0700, Amit Belani wrote:
> Al, 
> 
> Yes, I am trying to get an agetty prompt. 
> 
> I can use other FreeIPMI tools such as ipmipower just fine. Using
> --debug with ipmiconsole shows a continuous stream of scrollable text
> written to the screen after having received [SOL established] . 
> 
> I've no BIOS options to pick a COM port for IPMI redirection. 
> 
> /etc/inittab has mention of tty1 through tty6, but no mention of tty0. 

Sorry, I meant ttyS0 vs ttyS1.  Usually people have a line in their
inittab for respawning an agetty over serial.  How do you usually
setup/spawn your agetty?  I suppose for testing purposes you can just
run an agetty on the command line, e.g. agetty -L 115200 ttyS0 vs.
agetty -L 115200 ttyS1 to see if an agetty can show up.

Also, you may want to check the config output from bmc-config to see if
the baud rate for the SOL is setup correctly.  This may need to match
the baud rate of your serial redirection too (most motherboards don't
need it/require it, but maybe some do).

Al

> Thanks. 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Albert Chu" <address@hidden> 
> To: "Amit Belani" <address@hidden> 
> Cc: address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:38:46 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
> Subject: Re: ipmiconsole hangs at [SOL established] 
> 
> Hi Amit, 
> 
> CCing freeipmi-users. 
> 
> I'm assuming you are trying to get an agetty prompt? I can think of two 
> possible issues. 
> 
> 1) BIOS isn't redirecting serial data off the right COM port. It 
> depends on your motherboard, but some motherboards require you to 
> redirect off of COM2 instead of COM1. 
> 
> 2) The getty isn't redirecting through the right tty. e.g. maybe it 
> should be tty1 instead of tty0. See /etc/inittab. 
> 
> Al 
> 
> On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 12:11 -0700, Amit Belani wrote: 
> > Hi Al, 
> > 
> > ipmiconsole hangs after displaying [SOL established], after having 
> > used the command ipmiconsole -h hostname -u username -p password -W 
> > solpayloadsize. Note that I get [error received]: BMC Implementation 
> > if I don't use -W solpayloadsize. 
> > 
> > Is there anything I can do to address this issue? I appreciate any 
> > help you can provide. If you need additional info from me, please let 
> > me know and I can send it to you. 
> > 
> > Thank you. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Amit Belani 
> > 
> > 
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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory