Re: [Freeipmi-users] FreeIPMI-0.3.0 on FreeBSD 6.1: ipmi-sensors- sdr-cache directory initialization fails

[Tejram Meena]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:43, you wrote:
ipmi-sensors and ipmi-sel failed to automatically create sdr-cache directory 
and explicit option also does not help
address@hidden ~/freeipmi]$ ipmi-sensors 
--sdr-cache-directory=/home/vcr/freeipmi
ipmi-sensors: sdr cache directory setup failed

The ktrace output file and kdump output of ipmi-sensors is attached
Thanks
Tejram Meena

> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:27:35PM +0600, Dmitry Frolov wrote:
> ,----
>
> | * Tejram Meena <address@hidden> [06.12.2006 17:32]:
> | > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 20:30, Dmitry Frolov wrote:
> | >
> | > Thanks Dmitry, for the patched port skeleton, all the compilation
> | > issued are resolved with, but ipmi-sensors and ipmi-sel still have
> | > sdr cache bugs on FreeBSD.
> | >
> | > I am trying on IBM machine eserver xSeries 346 -[884011U] and the
> | > machine has KCS as Interface type.
> | >
> | > address@hidden /home/vcr]# ipmi-sensors
> | > ipmi-sensors: sdr cache directory setup failed
> | > address@hidden /home/vcr]# ipmi-sel
> | > ipmi-sel: sdr cache initialization failed
> |
> | I've not seen such failures.
> |
> | > Do we need to initialize or setup sensor data records(sdr) before
> | > using ipmi-snsors by some method..?
> |
> | No, there should be no need in any manual setup. Upon startup
> | ipmi-sensors should create ~/.freeipmi/sdr-cache directory (or
> | /tmp/freeipmi-<username>/sdr-cache if user's home directory doesn't
> | exist) and put sdr-cache-`hostname -s`.127.0.0.1 file in it.
> |
> | Can You please verify that root home directory exists? If so, try to
> | remove ~root/.freeipmi and rerun ipmi-sensors.
> |
> | If nothing helps, can You please run `ktrace ipmi-sensors' and send
> | me the output of `kdump' in the same directory (preferably directly,
> | since it may contain private info and the output may be huge).
>
> `----
> You can also manually specify a different path both home and tmp are
> not desirable. See this option --sdr-cache-directory=DIRECTORY.

kdump_output.txt
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