Bug#794210: systemd reboots spontaneously and with no trace on uninstalling ipmi

[Michael Biebl]

Am 31.07.2015 um 11:23 schrieb David Liontooth:
> root at cartago:~# just list ipmi
> ii  freeipmi-bmc-watchdog                  1.4.5-3                              amd64        GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - BMC watchdog

[..]

> At that moment, however, the machine just rebooted. /var/log/messages around the reboot show only this:
> 
> Jul 30 22:37:17 cartago ipmiutil: igetevent waiting for events ...
> Jul 30 23:28:22 cartago uptimed: moving up to position 18: 0 days, 06:30:26
> Jul 31 01:33:05 cartago rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.4.2" x-pid="2299" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start
> Jul 31 01:33:05 cartago kernel: [    0.577333] pci 0000:00:1a.0: System wakeup disabled by ACPI

Most likely, by having the ipmi packages installed, you had enabled the
watchdog functionality in systemd.
After uninstalling the package, the watchdog no longer responded, so
systemd rebooted the system. Which would be expected behaviour.

Michael



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