MAAS does not Properly Configure the Power Configuration During Enlistment (Dell PowerEdge Coffee Lake Systems)

[Michael Reed]

During enlistment of a PowerEdge R240, MAAS did not properly configure the power configuration. The fields for the IP address, Power user and Power password were not filled in. The "maas" user was created on the idrac. This also occurred on a PowerEdge R340 and a PowerEdge T340. This did not occur on systems from other processor families.

MAAS version 2.6.2

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9
Device Type 14G Monolithic
Hardware Version 0.01
Firmware Version 3.36.36.36
Firmware Updated Thu Aug 20 19:13:15 2020
RAC Time Wed Aug 26 22:10:46 2020
Number of Possible Sessions 8
Number of Current Sessions 1
IPMI Version 2.0

[Michael Reed (mreed8855)]

Enlistment logs for the PowerEdge R240

/var/log/maas/rsyslog/maas-enlisting-node/2020-08-20/172.16.67.105.bz2

[Michael Reed (mreed8855)]

Additional logs

/var/log/maas/rsyslog/R240-C16P13-112/2020-08-20/messages.bz2

[Adam Collard (adam-collard)]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for filing a bug and reporting the issue in MAAS.

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/zzcfJCrBDn/ from the logs posted I see that ipmi-locate segfaulted.

Is this reproducible? If so I suggest it's a bug in freeipmi-tools

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Hi Adam,

Thanks for pointing that out. I complained about free-ipmi segfaulting on Dells a while back, but let it go because it was only ever seen on very old systems with iDRAC6:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeipmi/+bug/1875771

I've updated that bug as well...

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Hi Michael,

One further... in my bug, I found that this wasn't an issue in Bionic with an older version of freeipmi-tools. Can you check and see if you can successfully commission one of those using bionic as the commissioning version instead of focal?

[Andrew Cloke (andrew-cloke)]

@Jeff, @Michael, are you ok to mark this as a dup of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeipmi/+bug/1875771 ?

It seems that is the root cause, and activity has moved to that bug.
Thx

[Andrew Cloke (andrew-cloke)]

After discussing, plan is to first test with a fixed freeipmi-tools (fixed with the patch described in LP# 1875771), and validate that this truly fixes the issue.
Keeping at "incomplete" for now.

[Michael Reed (mreed8855)]

I have validated that this issue is now fixed with the current ephemeral image and the power configuration is properly configured during enlistment in MAAS 2.8.2.