OMSA / IPMI issue on 6650

[Brett Morrow]

I wanted to see if anyone else still has this problem. RHEL 5.2 is
out and we are still stopped by this.

Thanks

-brett



>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.

>-- 
>Matt Domsch
>Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
>linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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