ipmitool crashes when incorrect tftp address is entered in petiboot

[Sean Feole]

Problem Description:

While navigating petiboot on the Power9, configure a specific interface with a static IP, set the gateway and dns appropiately. The enter the TFTP URL.

I mistakenly fat fingered the TFTP URL and confirmed my selection. The host attempts to PXE boot with the correct static ip address settings, however it attempts to access an invalid TFTP URL.

Once this occurs.

[eth0] Failed to download tftp://some-address/bootppc64.bin

Then IPMI Will exit.

SIGN INT: Close Interface IPMI v2.0 RMCP+ LAN Interface

Any attempt to reconnect to the the host via ipmitool fails.

Workaround:

The host must be cold power cycled, until the BMC resets itself. Then ipmitool will reconnect to the host.

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

What is the "crash" in ipmitool? Receiving a SIGINT is not a crash (afaict), it's the BMC saying to ipmitool to close the connection.

If the BMC is so fragile that it has to be cold power cycled to reset on bad input, that's a bug in the BMC firmware, not ipmitool.

[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

Sean, Please let us know if this bug is still valid? If it is could you please help answer the questions in comment #1?

[Sean Feole (sfeole)]

Feel free to close this bug, as I have not used that hardware in quite some time, my original intent was to file this bug against the hardware, however I was told the bug would be directed against ipmitool due to policies around power8/9 bugs.

[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

Please reopen if you can reproduce this bug on the power 8/9 hardware.