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bug #38771: Error on 2nd SOL session oipen fails with cryptic error message

Submitted by:  Jim Mankovich <jmank>
Submitted on:  Thu 18 Apr 2013 05:14:49 PM UTC  
 
Category: ipmiconsoleSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: None
Status: FixedPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: Albert Chu <chu11>Open/Closed: Closed
Operating System: None

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Thu 18 Apr 2013 06:50:48 PM UTC, comment #2:

Well be in FreeIPMI 1.2.6.

Albert Chu <chu11>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Thu 18 Apr 2013 05:51:28 PM UTC, comment #1:

In contrast to ipmitool, ipmiconsole will attempt to deactivate the previous SOL session (unless --dont-steal is specified) so that it can establish a session of its own.

A number of BMCs do not handle this deactivation properly, leading to a loop w/n libipmiconsole's state machine (is payload activated? yes -> deactivate payload -> is payload activated? yes -> deactivate payload ...). Eventually libipmiconsole gives up.

Hmmm. I suppose I could return the "SOL Inuse" error instead. That might be a better error message for this situation. I originally returned "BMC Error" b/c the deactivation part clearly was broken.

Albert Chu <chu11>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Thu 18 Apr 2013 05:14:49 PM UTC, original submission:

This was seen using Freeipmi 1.1.2

When attempting to open a 2nd SOL session while one is already active yields the following error message which does not at all indicate the real reason for the failure.

[error received]: BMC Error

Attempting the same thing with ipmitool yields a more informative error message:

Info: SOL payload already active on another session

I would be nice if ipmiconsole could display a more informative error message to the user.

Jim Mankovich <jmank>

 

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