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Bug 2042034 - exchange-bmc-os-info requires unknown ipmi.service
Summary: exchange-bmc-os-info requires unknown ipmi.service
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Status: CLOSED MIGRATED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ipmitool
Version: 8.4
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Pavel Cahyna
QA Contact: Laura Trivelloni
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-01-18 17:47 UTC by François Rigault
Modified: 2023-09-21 22:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-09-21 22:08:06 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-108519 0 None None None 2022-01-18 17:53:39 UTC

Description François Rigault 2022-01-18 17:47:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
exchange-bmc-os-info requires unknown ipmi.service

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
exchange-bmc-os-info-1.8.18-17.el8.noarch

How reproducible:
all the time:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install exchange-bmc-os-info
2. systemctl enable --now exchange-bmc-os-info
3.

Actual results:
Failed to start exchange-bmc-os-info.service: Unit ipmi.service not found.


Expected results:
should start fine

Additional info:


$ systemctl cat exchange-bmc-os-info
# /usr/lib/systemd/system/exchange-bmc-os-info.service
[Unit]
Description=Exchange Information between BMC and OS
After=ipmi.service network.target
Requires=ipmi.service

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I don't know what this ipmi.service is for (also there should be no dependency on the network). There is no suggestion/recommendation for this package and no man page. However removing the ipmi.service dependency seems to work fine.

Is it possible to remove the ipmi.service dependency, or to document which package provides it? (if any)
Comment 1 Pavel Cahyna 2022-01-18 18:25:02 UTC 
This service is provided by OpenIPMI:
$ rpm -qf /usr//lib/systemd/system/ipmi.service 
OpenIPMI-2.0.31-3.el8.x86_64

Not sure why/if it is needed or how it interacts with the other stuff yet.
Comment 2 Pavel Cahyna 2022-01-18 18:33:01 UTC 
And apparently ipmi.service is there to make sure that the ipmi modules are loaded. exchange-bmc-os-info.service needs the ipmi modules, so it makes sense to require this service, although I don't know whether it is still valid - it is possible that the modules get autoloaded nowadays without the need for this helper.
Comment 3 François Rigault 2022-01-18 19:06:28 UTC 
oh, ok. indeed things could be improved a bit, but it works fine with the OpenIPMI package, thanks for the help :) I guess this can be closed.
Comment 4 Pavel Cahyna 2022-01-18 20:14:10 UTC 
Let me keep it open as a reminder. If I have time, I will investigate in more detail the actual need for this. If not, I will at least add a RPM dependency on OpenIPMI to this subpackage when there is some more important update, as its absence is clearly a bug.
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