From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Sudden shutdown and wrong temperature reading (driver jc42)
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:01:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524DF731.9020106@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA9rSiUf_zbJ-sZ99yRQpakmpZrBurzM613ra0RqWQe8bVEcmQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/03/2013 03:51 PM, Olavo Luppi Silva wrote:
> 2013/9/28 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
>
>> Hi Olavo,
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:57:07 -0300, Olavo Luppi Silva wrote:
>>> SHORT STORY:
>>> The workstation suddenly shuts down, usually when performing intensive
>>> computation. Workaround: comment line jc42 at /etc/modules apparently
>>> solves the problem.
>>
>> On such workstations it is common to have IPMI, possibly even with a
>> BMC for remote management. In that case it is possible that IPMI and
>> lm-sensors conflict, as they try to access the same hardware without
>> synchronization. This would explain the SMBus errors.
>>
>> If you (or the BMC) are using IPMI, you can't use lm-sensors. Use
>> "ipmitool sensor" (or a similar command for other IPMI tools) instead.
>>
>> Hi Jean,
> Thanks for replying.
> Sorry for the ignorance, but I have just googled for BMC and IPMI to
> discover it is a Baseboard Management Controller and a Intelligent Platform
> Management Interface. :-). I am the administrator of Raphson workstation
> and other phd students are the administrators of Gauss and Kalman
> workstations.
> So I guess we don't have a BMC or a IPMI installed on our systems.
>
>
Nothing you can install; it is either there or it isn't. This is a board feature,
not a software feature.
Guenter
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-27 15:57 [lm-sensors] Sudden shutdown and wrong temperature reading (driver jc42) Olavo Luppi Silva
2013-09-27 16:32 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-28 0:06 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-28 9:16 ` Jean Delvare
2013-10-03 22:51 ` Olavo Luppi Silva
2013-10-03 23:01 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2013-10-07 22:18 ` Guenter Roeck
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