Kernel panic when system boots with message "kobject_add failed for ipmi_bmc.17 with -EEXIST"
Issue
- After a power recycle of one of our blade servers, we receive
kernel panic - not syncing fatal exception, shortly after a couple of services have been started. - The following error message is seen:
kernel: kobject\_add failed for ipmi\_bmc.17 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- HPE Blade server
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