From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:01:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Sudden shutdown and wrong temperature reading (driver jc42) Message-Id: <524DF731.9020106@roeck-us.net> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org On 10/03/2013 03:51 PM, Olavo Luppi Silva wrote: > 2013/9/28 Jean Delvare > >> 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 _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors