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(Get the code!)
Ok... so further investigation:
Fresh Natty install on an IBM server with BMC using the latest ISOs as of 8 March.
Looking in /lib/modules/
No IPMI packages are installed:
First I install ipmitool:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install ipmitool
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
openipmi
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ipmitool
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
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Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up ipmitool (1.8.11-2ubuntu3) ...
ipmievd: using pidfile /var/run/
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Unable to open interface
invoke-rc.d: initscript ipmievd, action "start" failed.
Unable to start ipmievd during installation. Trying to disable.
Also note that installing ipmitool does not install any other packages at all.
These errors happened because /dev/ipmi0 is not created... that requires ipmi_devmntf to be loaded. One would think that since I just installed ipmitool, which includes ipmievd to pass BMC messages on to syslog, that as soon as I reboot, the modules would be loaded, /dev/ipmi0 would be created and everthing would be copacetic. So after installing ipmitool and verifying that ipmievd was not running, /dev/ipmi0 was not there, and the modules were not loaded, I rebooted the server to see what would happen.
ipmi modules are NOT loaded, ipmievd is not started, and /dev/ipmi0 is not created, thus, nothing.
Now I install the openipmi package (which is NOT pulled in by installing ipmitool):
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install openipmi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libopenipmi0 libperl5.10 libsensors4 libsnmp-base libsnmp15
Suggested packages:
lm-sensors snmp-mibs-
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libopenipmi0 libperl5.10 libsensors4 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 openipmi
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Processing triggers for man-db ...
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Setting up libopenipmi0 (2.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
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Setting up libsnmp-base (5.4.3~
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Setting up openipmi (2.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
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Note that this installs SEVERAL packages but also does not load the modules after installation, so off to reboot we go again.
And now, ipmi_devintf is loaded, along with ipmi_si and ipmi_msghandler
So the real issue seems to simply be that this package should be pulling in the openipmi package when it's installed. That will fix the problem, I think.