ipmiutil_evt.service fails due to probable lack of PID file
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ipmiutil (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Install ipmiutil. Run “sudo systemctl start ipmiutil_evt”.
$ sudo systemctl start ipmiutil_evt
Job for ipmiutil_
See "systemctl status ipmiutil_
$ systemctl status ipmiutil_evt
● ipmiutil_
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2021-01-29 15:24:44 PST; 5min ago
Process: 2243217 ExecStartPre=
Process: 2243263 ExecStart=
Jan 29 15:23:14 (hostname elided) ipmiutil[2243263]: Event Message Buffers not enabled.
Jan 29 15:23:14 (hostname elided) ipmiutil[2243263]: set_bmc_enables error 0xcc
Jan 29 15:23:14 (hostname elided) ipmiutil[2243263]: igetevent reading sensors ...
Jan 29 15:23:14 (hostname elided) ipmiutil[2243263]: igetevent reading sensors ...
Jan 29 15:23:39 (hostname elided) systemd[1]: ipmiutil_
Jan 29 15:23:39 (hostname elided) ipmiutil[2249663]: igetevent waiting for events via method 1 (SEL_events)
Jan 29 15:24:44 (hostname elided) systemd[1]: ipmiutil_
Jan 29 15:24:44 (hostname elided) ipmiutil[2249663]: ipmiutil getevent exiting.
Jan 29 15:24:44 (hostname elided) systemd[1]: ipmiutil_
Jan 29 15:24:44 (hostname elided) systemd[1]: Failed to start ipmiutil Event Daemon.
The failure appears to be inability to open /run/ipmiutil_
Deleting the PIDFile line from the service file appears to work, though perhaps it would be better to remove “-b” from IPMIUTILEVTARGS and use Type=simple or Type=exec instead?
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
$ apt-cache policy ipmiutil
ipmiutil:
Installed: 3.1.5-1
Candidate: 3.1.5-1
Version table:
*** 3.1.5-1 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/