Problem with OMSA 5.5 or OpenIPMI? /dev/ipmi0 does not exist

[Charles H Biel]

Hi Matt,

    You got me pointed in the right direction. In the end, this is all
I needed to do get /dev/ipmi0 to show up so OMSA is fully working as
expected (detail below FWIW):

/sbin/start_udev

I appreciate the help!

Thanks,
Charles


[root at test]# /sbin/start_udev
Starting udev:                                             [  OK  ]
[root at test]# srvadmin-services.sh start
Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
Starting dell_rbu:                                         [  OK  ]
Starting ipmi driver:                                      [  OK  ]
Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
Starting dsm_sa_datamgr32d:                                [  OK  ]
Starting dsm_sa_eventmgr32d:                               [  OK  ]
Starting dsm_sa_snmp32d:                                   [  OK  ]
Starting DSM SA Shared Services:                           [  OK  ]

Starting DSM SA Connection Service:                        [  OK  ]

[root at test]#


On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Matt Domsch wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:56:33PM -0500, Charles H Biel wrote:
>> /dev/ipmi0 does not exist.
>>
>> Thanks to http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/manpage.html, I found that this
>> fixes me up:
>>
>> [root at test]#mknod /dev/ipmi0 c 254 0
>>
>>
>> It appears the /dev/ipmi0 entry should have been made by /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipmi
>> but I guess it's not happening.
>>
>> Perhaps it's due to this update from Red Hat. I didn't have this problem last
>> week on other systems I tested, only since this update.
>>
>> Updated: OpenIPMI.i386 0:2.0.6-6.el5_2.2 OpenIPMI-libs.i386
>> 0:2.0.6-6.el5_2.2
>
> On EL5, that device node should be created by udev, independent of any
> OpenIPMI or OpenIPMI-libs package.
>
>
> -- 
> Matt Domsch
> Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
>