Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 658762
ipmitool delloem accesses IPMI before acting (e.g. listing help)
Last modified: 2013-01-07 23:52:08 EST
Description of problem: using delloem extension, ipmitool tries to work with IPMI before any further action this for example prevents the user to read the usage message for the "lcd" command if the capability is not available - but help should NOT be dependent on IPMI running/accesible it also leads to confusing messages trying to use the command Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-10.el5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: on a machine without delloem extensions: 1. ipmitool delloem help 2. ipmitool delloem lcd info Actual results: 1. # ipmitool delloem help Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory usage: delloem <command> [option...] commands: mac lan powermonitor For help on individual commands type: delloem <command> help 2. # ipmitool delloem lcd info Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory usage: delloem <command> [option...] commands: mac lan powermonitor For help on individual commands type: delloem <command> help Expected results: 1. ipmitool should not try to access ipmi if just asked for help; also the 'lcd' command should be listed 2. this is valid command syntax - instead of printing the usage message, ipmitool should report that the LCD support is not available Additional info: the machine to test (with LCD support) is Dell PowerEdge R805
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Patch sent upstream: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29341092
... and patches were accepted.
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: In the previous update, ipmitool command line utility was enhanced with various Dell OEM commands. When printing command usage, e.g. using 'ipmtool delloem help', ipmitool first checked the IPMI hardware for Dell IPMI extensions and listed only supported commands. On non-Dell platform, the usage text was incomplete and misleading. In this update, all Dell OEM extensions are listed in usage texts on all platforms, which allows an user to check for command line arguments on non-Dell HW.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0123.html