OMSA / IPMI issue on 6650

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 04:11:11PM -0400, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> 
> runnint CentOS 5 with all current updates..
> 
> I did yum install srvadmin-all
> 
> Upon restart, starting ipmi hangs.
> 
> It would appear I'm hitting:
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9793

I think you are.  RHEL 5.2 will have a fix for it I'm told.

> Has anyone used OMSA with 6650 and CentOS5 ?

yes, but with an earlier kernel.  A less-tested change to the ipmi BT
part of the driver made it in, which broke a number of older (6th
Generation or earlier) PowerEdge servers (which we don't test new
software on any more as a rule - they're 5+ years old).  That said, we
do fix things when we can, and this should be fixed in RHEL 5.2.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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