On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:

> Hello everybody.
>
> I rebooted with current kernel from sl-security (2.6.32-358.2.1.el6) and
> discovered that IPMI completely stopped working. Service
> /etc/init.d/ipmi prints "FAILED" when starting, /dev/ipmi* device isn't
> created and so on.
>
> TUV introduced change in 6.4 - kernel ipmi support is compiled in
> (CONFIG_IPMI_SI=y instead of =m in previous versions), so
> init script is supposed to just activate it, instead of old code that
> loads module & such. Package with fixed initscript is available as
> OpenIPMI-2.0.16-14: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0492.html
>
> However, currently SL6 offers new kernel, but old OpenIPMI from 6.3, so
> everything IPMI-related refuses to work until user manually rebuilds &
> updates to that SRPM.

I just discovered this too.

I grabbed OpenIPMI-2.0.16-14.el6.x86_64.rpm  and
OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-14.el6.x86_64.rpm from SL 6.4 (rolling) and updated
these RPMs on my 6.x boxes with the newer kernels, and then
/etc/init.d/ipmi works properly again.

So it would be a good idea to have OpenIPMI* from 6.4 pushed out as 
errata.

cheers, etc.
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