On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Gerry Creager wrote:
I'm wondering if there might be a single voltage that's over-taxed and that opening a breaker in that supply might cause the halt-to-quiescent while leaving IPMI alive...
I don't quite understand the "opening a breaker in that supply might cause the halt-to-quiescent" part, but just to clear up some of the things I've written before: if the computer crashes, I expect IPMI to tell me that the computer is in "on" power state; I might be able to use the IPMI console redirection to see what (if any) is printed on the console, like OOM, kernel oops, etc. In the behaviour that I have described previously for these SuperMicro boards, IPMI reported power to be "off", similar to the result of running "/sbin/poweroff" from Linux or sending a "power off" IPMI command; at the end of these 2 commands there is no console output anymore as the CPU is powered off. So somehow the BMC was notified that the computer is not "on" anymore... or maybe it was the BMC which made the decision to turn off in the fisrt place.
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