ipmi on Dell hardware stops working after RHEL6.4 upgrade

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • ipmi-sensors report creation failed

  • After updating to RHEL6.4 freeipmi is not working anymore.

[root@dell-r820 ~]# ipmi-sensors -V
ipmi-sensors - 0.7.16
Copyright (C) 2003-2008 FreeIPMI Core Team
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.

[root@dell-r820 ~]# ipmi-sensors --debug
Caching SDR repository information: /root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-dell-r820.localhost
=====================================================
Get SDR Repository Info Request
=====================================================
[              20h] = cmd[ 8b]
=====================================================
Get SDR Repository Info Response
=====================================================
ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4

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