Re: [Ipmitool-devel] /dev/ipmi0 not seen by ipmitool?

[Kurt Y. <kty...@yo...>]

I'm using varying versions of Ubuntu stock kernels:

2.6.17-10
2.6.22-14
2.6.20-15

I just tried installing the modules and device on a different machine  
with 2.6.20-15, and got a different error than the -17. On the  
command line:

FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si (/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-server/kernel/ 
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko): No such device

In kern.log:

ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)

As usual, the rest of the ipmi modules are installed, and /dev/ipmi0  
has been created.

On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Corey Minyard wrote:

> What Linux version are you running?
>
> That error means that the driver was unable to register with the I/ 
> O subsystem because the name was already registered.  Which is very  
> strange, because this is the only thing that is using that name.   
> So you are trying to load a module and the function is already  
> compiled into the kernel (not sure if that is even possible) or  
> something very weird is going on.
>
> -corey
>
> David Ranch wrote:
>> You DO need the 'si' driver (as least I do).
>>
>> The SI driver should give a better error report than '17'.  Look  
>> at the src code and see if there are any better descriptions there.
>>
>> --david
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Kurt Yoder <kty...@yo...>
>> To: David Ranch
>> Cc: ipm...@li... <ipmitool- 
>> de...@li...>
>> Sent: Thu Feb 21 07:08:11 2008
>> Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] /dev/ipmi0 not seen by ipmitool?
>>
>> The device looks correct:
>>
>> # ls -l /dev/ipmi*
>> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 254, 0 2008-02-19 11:59 /dev/ipmi0
>>
>>
>>
>> the major node looks correct as well:
>>
>> # cat /proc/devices | grep ipmi
>> 254 ipmidev
>>
>>
>>
>> the kernel modules appear to be loaded:
>>
>> # lsmod | grep ipmi
>> ipmi_watchdog          20156  0
>> ipmi_devintf           10248  0
>> ipmi_msghandler        37952  2 ipmi_watchdog,ipmi_devintf
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't need to have the ipmi_si module loaded, correct? If I try  
>> to  load it, I get an error in the kern.log:
>>
>> init_ipmi_si: Unable to register driver: -17
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll have to check on the BIOS and BMC firmware.
>>
>>
>> On Feb 20, 2008, at 4:47 PM, David A. Ranch wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Do you have the right BMC firmware loaded on the DL360 as well  
>>> as  the most up to date BIOS and BMC firmware.
>>> Also, what's the output of "ls -la /dev/ipmi*"?  It should be   
>>> something like:
>>>
>>>   crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 253, 0 Dec 10 15:38 /dev/ipmi0
>>>
>>> --David
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hiya, list!
>>>>
>>>> I installed openipmi successfully (I think), and now have a / 
>>>> dev/ ipmi0:
>>>>
>>>> # ls /dev/ipmi*
>>>> /dev/ipmi0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However ipmitool doesn't like my device if I use -I open:
>>>>
>>>> # ipmitool -I open sdr
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> If I use -I imb, I get weird errors:
>>>>
>>>> # ipmitool -I imb sdr
>>>> Error sending IMB request, status=1 ccode=0
>>>> Error sending IMB request, status=1 ccode=0
>>>> Error sending IMB request, status=1 ccode=0
>>>> Error sending IMB request, status=1 ccode=0
>>>> Error sending IMB request, status=1 ccode=0
>>>> Error sending IMB request, status=1 ccode=0
>>>> WARNING: Unknown SDR repository version 0x00
>>>> Error sending IMB request, status=1 ccode=bf
>>>> Error sending IMB request, status=1 ccode=bf
>>>> Error sending IMB request, status=1 ccode=bf
>>>> Unable to obtain SDR reservation
>>>> Unable to open SDR for reading
>>>>
>>>> This is a local query, so AFAIK -I lan/-I lanplus would not be    
>>>> approriate for me, correct?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some notes: this works fine on all my ProLiant DL145 machines.    
>>>> However, I get the above-mentioned problem on all of my  
>>>> ProLiant   DL360 machines. So it seems to be something hardware- 
>>>> dependent.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Suggestions? Comments? RTFM locations?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -Kurt
>>>>
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