Startup failed to load ipmi_devintf module

Ill take a look at this for lucid.

Thanks
chuck

This is still a problem on lucid. The ipmi_devintf and ipmi_si kernel modules don't load automatically and /dev/ipmi0 isn't created, so ipmitool won't work.

I downloaded a CentOS RPM for openipmi and extracted the file

  /etc/sysconfig/ipmi

I copied this file to

  /etc/default/openipmi

as Kipp suggested and made the following edits to

  /etc/init.d/openipmi

Line 35: Changed

  CONFIGFILE=/etc/sysconfig/ipmi

to

  CONFIGFILE=/etc/default/openipmi

to source correct configuration file.

Line 68: Changed

  LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/ipmi

to

  LOCKFILE=/var/lock/ipmi

for the location of the ipmi lockfile.

I tested this by rebooting the system and it works, the ipmi_devintf and ipmi_si kernel modules load, /dev/ipmi0 is created and the lockfile is created at /var/lock/ipmi. Attached is a copy of the ipmi config file I installed at /etc/default/openipmi

to

@Jamie,

Thanks for all those details. I believe I've embodied them in a small proposed change at the linked bzr tree. The resulting package is building in ppa:serge-hallyn/ipmi. Could you test that one and tell me whether it fixes all of your problems?

Serge, I ended up going over to the freeipmi package. I don't know when I'd have time to test this.

Serge, if nobody has tried it I can try it out.

Jamie, risking going off-topic, how do you compare freeipmi with openipmi?

Quoting Raubvogel (<email address hidden>):
> Serge, if nobody has tried it I can try it out.

Awesome, thanks much.

I might be able to try this in the next few days. I have a system I'm re-imaging and I'll see if I can find time to test this. Without going too far off topic I think that both openipmi and freeipmi are good solutions for communicating with your BMC and the hardware watchdog and both worked for me. I chose to deploy freeipmi over openipmi because it doesn't require you to load any device drivers and because I felt that the documentation was clearer.

Lockfile part of this bug was addressed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openipmi/+bug/722770

Serge, is there a way for me to try that in 10.10 or 10.04LTS? I do not have natty and need it in 10.04LTS.

Serge,

NVM, I tested in 10.10 and they work. /etc/default/openipmi is created and /etc/init.d/openipmi correctly points to /etc/default/openipmi and /var/lock/ipmi.

So, looks like a winner to me.

Thanks!

This bug was fixed in the package openipmi - 2.0.18-0ubuntu3

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openipmi (2.0.18-0ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  * Fix up packaging to install and use /etc/default/openipmi.
    (LP: #473332) Thanks to Serge Hallyn.
 -- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:38:42 -0500