It looks like my BMC is getting restarted/reset during boot? (ipmi_si)

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I recently switched from TrueNAS CORE to CE and noticed that it takes longer to boot. While troubleshooting I noticed this in the logs:

[   14.469058] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: The BMC does not support clearing the recv irq bit, compensating, but the BMC needs to be fixed.
[   14.635684] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: IPMI message handler: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x002a7c, prod_id: 0x0624, dev_id: 0x20)

I found a post on the old forum which I can’t make heads or tails of…

I can’t add links to my post but the title of the post is “ipmi_si IPI0001:00: The BMC does not support clearing the recv irq bit, compensating, but the BMC needs to be fixed.”

Hardware info

  • OS: 25.10.1 - Goldeye
  • Host: Supermicro X9SCL/X9SCM
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2
  • GPU: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. X9SCM-F Motherboard
  • Memory: 2943MiB / 28041MiB
  • BIOS: 2.3a
  • BMC firmware: 3.52
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No clue & not sure how to help, but any hits from

grep -iE ‘bmc|ipmi’ /var/log/syslog

Maybe it’d be of use

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Thanks! I am new to Linux so any help is appreciated! This is what’s in the logfile:

kernel: IPMI message handler: version 39.2
kernel: ipmi device interface
kernel: ipmi_si: IPMI System Interface driver
kernel: ipmi_si dmi-ipmi-si: ipmi_platform: probing via SMBIOS
kernel: ipmi_platform: ipmi_si: SMBIOS: io 0xca2 regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 0
kernel: ipmi_si: Adding SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine
kernel: ipmi_si IPI0001:00: ipmi_platform: probing via ACPI
kernel: ipmi_si IPI0001:00: ipmi_platform: [io  0x0ca2] regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 0
kernel: ipmi_si dmi-ipmi-si: Removing SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine in favor of ACPI
kernel: ipmi_si: Adding ACPI-specified kcs state machine
kernel: ipmi_si: Trying ACPI-specified kcs state machine at i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x0, irq 0
kernel: ipmi_si IPI0001:00: The BMC does not support clearing the recv irq bit, compensating, but the BMC needs to be fixed.
kernel: ipmi_si IPI0001:00: IPMI message handler: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x002a7c, prod_id: 0x0624, dev_id: 0x20)
kernel: ipmi_si IPI0001:00: IPMI kcs interface initialized
kernel: ipmi_ssif: IPMI SSIF Interface driver

I am on the latest firmware for the BMC, 3.52, and also the latest bios, 2.3a. Not sure where to go from here or if it’s safe to ignore. Haven’t had time to confirm yet but it seems like I am getting into a situation where the fans ramp up and down after the system getting hot, I can’t recall observing that behavior on TrueNAS CORE.

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I mean, I don’t see anything I understand as an actionable issue :confused: does the ipmi work fine? I don’t see how the os would necessarily impact it other than the gui not linking to it? Maybe I’m missing something

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Everything seems to work, it’s more annoying that ithe boot halts while the system waits for the BMC to reset.

I have been having a problem with the fans ramping up and down since I installed SCALE but I am not sure if it’s related.