***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] sminfo report iberror in the first configuration on RHEL5.3

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Wen Hao Wang <wangwhao at cn.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I changed my blade OS to RHEL5.3 yesterday and installed OFED (shipped in
> RHEL5.3 image) by "yum groupisntall". Then I load some drivers and wrote
> network interface configuration file ifcfg-ib0. ifup ib0 also succeeded. But
> IB utilites report Connetion timed out.
>
>
> [root at xblade06 network-scripts]# sminfo
> ibwarn: [32593] _do_madrpc: recv failed: Connection timed out
> ibwarn: [32593] mad_rpc: _do_madrpc failed; dport (Lid 9)
> sminfo: iberror: failed: query

It looks like the SM found the blade and at least configured the SMLID
but somehow LID routing did not work between the blade and the SM (at
LID 9). Was this problem persistent (without rebooting the blade) ?
Was the blade IB port active ?

-- Hal

> I had to reboot the blade and rerun "openibd start". Then sminfo reported
> correct contents. I do not suppose this reboot is required. Did I miss any
> configuration step?
>
> Moreover, "openibd start" report one warning message about hwconf. Anyone
> has comments about this?
>
> [root at xblade07 ~]# /etc/init.d/openibd start
> Loading OpenIB kernel modules:grep: /etc/sysconfig/hwconf: No such file or
> directory
> [ OK ]
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Wen Hao Wang
> Email: wangwhao at cn.ibm.com
>
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