RE: [Freeipmi-users] Resolving error: "could not find inbanddevice"

[Al Chu]

Hey Michael,

In that case, you just need to make sure you have all the right files
for your distribution.  I think the issue you had from before (where it
could not find a inband driver) is that you didn't have the /var/* files
that freeipmi creates in your distro.  If you have those files, I think
the inband stuff will work again.

Al

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 20:09 -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> The whole point of this is that I want to compile freeipmi and then use the
> output files for distribution on our many other nodes.  I think you are
> asking me to compile freeipmi, so that I could then do the "make install"
> which makes everything work on the machine I compiled on.  So I would have
> to compile freeipmi on all the other machines.  And to make matters worse,
> we are using a LiveCD on each of those machines so part of the boot up
> process either requires a remastering of the CD or compiling freeipmi as
> part of the boot up process, which we need to avoid.
> 
> Again, all of our machines are clones of each other: same hardware/software
> 
> I see that freeipmi creates these other directories as part of the make
> install:
>       usr/etc
>       usr/var  (if if isn't already there)
> 
> As part of the copy process, again here is my distribution method:
> 
> 1.  Copy all freeipmi binaries (ipmi*, bmc*, rmpping, pef-config to usr/sbin
> 2.  Copy all freeipmi libraries to /usr/lib64 (also create the symlinks that
> the make install does)
> 3.  Copy the entire /usr/etc directory to the target computer. (freeipmi
> creates this directory and puts stuff in it during make install).
> 
> 
> 
> Respectfully Yours,
> Michael Vitale
> 8403 Tobin Rd.
> Annandale, VA 22003
> address@hidden
> 703-663-3770
> 
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Chu [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:54 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [Freeipmi-users] Resolving error: "could not find inbanddevice"
> 
> Can you do the full install instead of the just copying the files over.
> There's atleast one other file a few of the drivers require that comes
> with the full-install.
> 
> Al
> 
> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 06:54 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi Al,
> > 
> > ipmi-locate works.  Here is the output.
> > 
> > Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... done
> > IPMI Version: 2.0
> > IPMI locate driver: DMIDECODE
> > IPMI interface: KCS
> > BMC driver device: 
> > BMC I/O base address: 0xCA2
> > Register spacing: 1
> > 
> > Probing SMIC device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing BT device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing SSIF device using DMIDECODE... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... done
> > IPMI Version: 2.0
> > IPMI locate driver: SMBIOS
> > IPMI interface: KCS
> > BMC driver device: 
> > BMC I/O base address: 0xCA2
> > Register spacing: 1
> > 
> > Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing SMIC device using ACPI... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED
> > 
> > Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED
> > 
> > KCS device default values: 
> > IPMI Version: 1.5
> > IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> > IPMI interface: KCS
> > BMC driver device: 
> > BMC I/O base address: 0xCA2
> > Register spacing: 1
> > 
> > SMIC device default values: 
> > IPMI Version: 1.5
> > IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> > IPMI interface: SMIC
> > BMC driver device: 
> > BMC I/O base address: 0xCA9
> > Register spacing: 1
> > 
> > BT device default values: 
> > SSIF device default values: 
> > IPMI Version: 1.5
> > IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> > IPMI interface: SSIF
> > BMC driver device: /dev/i2c-0
> > BMC SMBUS slave address: 0x42
> > Register spacing: 1
> > 
> > 
> >         -------- Original Message --------
> >         Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] Resolving error: "could not find
> >         inband
> >         device"
> >         From: Al Chu <address@hidden>
> >         Date: Fri, November 14, 2008 11:31 am
> >         To: address@hidden
> >         Cc: address@hidden
> >         
> >         Hey Michael,
> >         
> >         Hmmm. It should work for you just fine. It is possible that
> >         the IPMI
> >         card on the other machine is broken and thus nothing can be
> >         found. Does
> >         ipmi-locate give you different results on the two machines?
> >         
> >         Al
> >         
> >         On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:41 -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> >         > Hi,
> >         > 
> >         > I compiled and ran ipmi-sensors successfully, but when i
> >         tried to run it on
> >         > a different machine after copying just the /usr/sbin and
> >         usr/lib64 files
> >         > generated by the previous compile, i get this error on the
> >         machine where I
> >         > just copied the binaries:
> >         > 
> >         > ipmi-sensors
> >         > could not find inband device
> >         > 
> >         > Anybody know what else needs to loaded on the other computer
> >         that these
> >         > binaries need? The other machine is a clone of the machine I
> >         ran the
> >         > compile on: same hardware/software.
> >         > 
> >         > Respectfully Yours,
> >         > Michael Vitale
> >         > 
> >         >
> >         <mailto:address@hidden>
> >         > address@hidden
> >         > 703-663-3770
> >         > 
> >         > 703=600-9343
> >         > 
> >         > 
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> >         > 
> >         -- 
> >         Albert Chu
> >         address@hidden
> >         Computer Scientist
> >         High Performance Systems Division
> >         Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> >         
> >         
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Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory