SW407037 - bmcsetup does not successfully configure the IP (Sev1)ΒΆ
- Issue: SW407037
- Reported: 1742C (ibm-v1.99.10-113-g65edf7d-r8-0-g713d86d)
- Fixed: Fixed in xCAT after 11/07/17 #4242
Issue:
OpenBMC firmware has problems with ipmi inband support of the access on
comamnd and the work around is to use the raw 0x06 0x40
instead. In early Sept, we switched to using access on
because the implementation looked like it was working, since then we have found some issues with it and recommendation is to revert back to the raw command.
See related issues describing potential problems: * https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2493 * https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2492
This problem is very severe because if the network is not configured correctly, the access to the BMC is lost.
Work-around
Use one of the following work arounds:
- Install a version of xCAT built after November, 07, 2017 which includes the fix. (Recommended)
- Manually patch bmcsetup using changes in PR: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/4247, then run
mknb ppc64
- Patch the system with provided patch:
- Download patch file: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/files/1451181/bmcsetup.4242.patch.txt
- If file name is
/tmp/bmcsetup.4242.patch.txt
cd /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/genesis/ppc64/fs/usr/bin
patch -p0 < /tmp/bmcsetup.4242.patch.txt
mknb ppc64