I verified this on an x86 server by testing that the output is the same before and after the update (see below). I also gave a heads-up to the MAAS team to consider adding this to their CI (see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas-images/+bug/1702976/comments/11), though I don't know if that occurred. @Andres: was your team able to run any tests with this? dannf@r815:~$ apt policy freeipmi-tools freeipmi-tools: Installed: 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu3~0.16.04 Candidate: 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4~0.16.04 Version table: 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4~0.16.04 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 Packages *** 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu3~0.16.04 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.4.11-1ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages dannf@r815:~$ sudo ipmi-locate 2>&1 | tee /tmp/ipmi-locate.xenial Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... done IPMI Version: 2.0 IPMI locate driver: DMIDECODE IPMI interface: KCS BMC driver device: BMC I/O base address: 0xCA8 Register spacing: 4 Probing SMIC device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing BT device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing SSIF device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... done IPMI Version: 2.0 IPMI locate driver: SMBIOS IPMI interface: KCS BMC driver device: BMC I/O base address: 0xCA8 Register spacing: 4 Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED Probing SMIC device using ACPI... FAILED Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED dannf@r815:~$ sudo apt install freeipmi-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: freeipmi-common libfreeipmi16 libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect0 Suggested packages: freeipmi-ipmidetect freeipmi-bmc-watchdog The following packages will be upgraded: freeipmi-common freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi16 libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect0 5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 261 not upgraded. Need to get 1,735 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? 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Setting up freeipmi-tools (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4~0.16.04) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu7) ... dannf@r815:~$ sudo ipmi-locate 2>&1 | tee /tmp/ipmi-locate.xenial-proposed Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... done IPMI Version: 2.0 IPMI locate driver: DMIDECODE IPMI interface: KCS BMC driver device: BMC I/O base address: 0xCA8 Register spacing: 4 Probing SMIC device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing BT device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing SSIF device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... done IPMI Version: 2.0 IPMI locate driver: SMBIOS IPMI interface: KCS BMC driver device: BMC I/O base address: 0xCA8 Register spacing: 4 Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED Probing SMIC device using ACPI... FAILED Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED dannf@r815:~$ diff -u /tmp/ipmi-locate.xenial /tmp/ipmi-locate.xenial-proposed dannf@r815:~$