ipmi watchdog service fails to start

[Tim Kay]

lsb_release
  Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
  Release: 22.04

ipmiutil:
  Installed: 3.1.8-1
  Candidate: 3.1.8-1

The ipmiutil_wdt service fails to start

× ipmiutil_wdt.service - ipmiutil Watchdog Timer Service using cron
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ipmiutil_wdt.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2023-12-20 11:17:05 GMT; 18s ago
    Process: 42230 ExecStart=/usr/share/ipmiutil/ipmiutil_wdt start (code=exited, status=127)
   Main PID: 42230 (code=exited, status=127)
        CPU: 12ms

Dec 20 11:17:05 vslgpu2 systemd[1]: Started ipmiutil Watchdog Timer Service using cron.
Dec 20 11:17:05 vslgpu2 ipmiutil_wdt[42230]: Starting ipmiutil_wdt:
Dec 20 11:17:05 vslgpu2 ipmiutil_wdt[42230]: /usr/share/ipmiutil/ipmiutil_wdt: 49: ipmiutil_wdt: not found
Dec 20 11:17:05 vslgpu2 systemd[1]: ipmiutil_wdt.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Dec 20 11:17:05 vslgpu2 systemd[1]: ipmiutil_wdt.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

This is for 2 reasons - 2nd is masked by the first and gives a different error

Dec 20 11:18:39 vslgpu2 systemd[1]: Started ipmiutil Watchdog Timer Service using cron.
Dec 20 11:18:39 vslgpu2 ipmiutil_wdt[42690]: Starting /usr/bin/ipmiutil wdt:
Dec 20 11:18:39 vslgpu2 ipmiutil_wdt[42698]: Failed to restart crond.service: Unit crond.service not found.

Bugs/issue are:

1] the service script at /usr/share/ipmiutil/ipmiutil_wdt sets a variable $prog that is then overwritten. This is fixed in ipmiutil version 3.1.9 as below:

03/03/2023 ARCress ipmiutil-3.1.9 changes (iver 3.19)
  util/isensor.c - fix -i get_idx_range to show last idx in range
  util/igetevent.c - fix printf extra arg
  util/memif.c - SR56: try UEFI address 6d5a7000 if F0000 error
  configure.ac - Clang 16 fixes, resolve -Wimplicit-function-declaration issues
    (Sam James <email address hidden> 11/16/2022)
  lib/lanplus/lanplus.h - resolve implicit os_assert declaration (Sam James)
  util/ireset.c - SR58: remove is_romley case for ireset -D
  scripts/ipmiutil_wdt - SR43: changed $prog to $progn for Debian <-- THIS !!!

2] The script checks for /bin/systemctl ( if [ -x /bin/systemctl ]; ) and sets the variable restart_cron="systemctl restart crond.service' without checking for other OS versions rather than nesting an additional check for debian/ubuntu and setting restart_cron="systemctl restart cron.service' (without the d)

Fix for 1] above is to upgrade to the latest patch of ipmiutil (or to rename the $prog var)
Fix for 2] avove is to add an additional OS check or just remove the "d" from the systemctl restart

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ipmiutil 3.1.8-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-89.99-generic 5.15.126
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-89-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Wed Dec 20 10:52:00 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-10 (1470 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: ipmiutil
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2023-02-15 (307 days ago)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "ipmiutil_wdt.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.