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

[Wen Hao Wang]

Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock at gmail.com> 写于 2009-02-12 20:04:44:

> 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

Before reboot, I tried following operations
openibd restart
network restart
ibcheckerrors
ibclearerrors

But none of them helped. I had no idea what else I could do. So I tried
reboot.

If I remember correct, the port state was Linkup before rebooting. And now
it
is active

>
> > 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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Thanks!

Wen Hao Wang
Email: wangwhao at cn.ibm.com
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