Relates to the Linux Foundation OpenBMC project hosted at https://github.com/openbmc. Questions about getting started, debugging, help for problems, supported platforms, etc.
Questions tagged [openbmc]
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AST2500 Evaulation Board Build Image
Our final image is lacking OpenBMC features such as SSH, Web GUI, and IPMI
We have a AST2500 evaluation board.
We are using recommended build environment and setting:
export TEMPLATECONF=meta-evb/meta-evb-aspeed/meta-evb-ast2500/conf
We are using…

mdolaty
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Looking for instructions for how to build OpenBMC for AST2600
I am trying to build OpenBMC for AST2600.
I have been able to successfully follow the steps described in AST2500 Evaulation Board Build Image, to build AST2500 OpenBMC image. However, looks like additional work needed to modify content downloaded…

rfeldman94303
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How to print debug message in the OpenBMC
I want to print debug message in the bmcweb of OpenBMC. The development language of OpenBMC is c++, and I print the message through printf and cout, but it does't work. In the console of qemu, I can not see any message I print ....
Any one could…

林姿均
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Yocto out-of-tree module install problem (version incompatibility)
I have external module (device driver) which I try to use in my system. Unfortunately, system says in log that my module cannot be added during boot process:
[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
Well, I tried to insert this module…

DarkTiger
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bitbake network failure during npm build
I am trying to build openbmc image and my yocto build is failing in phosphor-webui recipe's do compile task.
Here is the do compile task
do_compile () {
cd ${S}
rm -rf node_modules
npm --loglevel info --proxy=${http_proxy}…

Rohit Pai
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Linux: who is listening on tcp port 22?
I have a AST2600 evb board. After power on (w/ RJ45 connected), it boots into a OpenBMC kernel. From serial port, using ip command I can obtain its IP address. From my laptop, I can ssh into the board using account root/0penBmc:
bruin@gen81:/$ ssh…

bruin
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OpenBMC VSCode autocomplete
I'm trying to figure out if I can get some form of autocomplete working with the OpenBMC project. Not even sure where to start. What in general would the steps be?

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"image is too large" keeps on happening to openbmc image for Raspberrypi platform
Could someone please give me advice to make an openbmc image for Raspberrypi platform ?
Before I tried, I looked through related documents and believed an openbmc image can be worked on Raspberrypi.
Like OpenBMC with Raspberry Pi (2 or 3) and build…

tm4A
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OpenBMC WebUI update version MANIFEST and publickey
I want to update BMC image via OpenBmc WebUI.
openbmc web will block upload files of the same version
I try to trace code to understand the /upload/image mechanism
It seems to be related to MANIFEST & publickey
Where can I find the openbmc code that…

Gary_Vin
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How to enable USB 2.0 Host on AST2500?
I'm trying to enable USB 2.0 Host on an AST2500 based board. I'm using the latest obmc-phosphor-image from GitHub which contains Linux 5.10.30. EHCI seems to start in QEMU but fails on real HW. I enabled ehci0 (or ehci1) in the device tree, added…

bkardos
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How to set-property using busctl for setting D-Bus object?
While setting a D-Bus property using busctl it throws the error message
"The operation is not allowed".
busctl introspect xyz.openbmc_project.Network /xyz/openbmc_project/network/eth1/ipv6/f8ea20e3 xyz.openb
mc_project.Network.IP
NAME …

J.Doe
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how does the baseboard management controller (BMC) talk to the host machine?
I can turn off a server by using ipmitool. But how does the BMC initiate the off command to the Host OS? How are the two connected internally?
And also when the host is powered down how does the bmc turn on the machine? I am assuming it's able to…

Athkar
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In openbmc what is the difference between the xyz path and the /redfish/v1 path
I am new to openbmc and trying to understand the basic details.
As I am checking docs, I found two docs, REST-cheatsheet.md & REDFISH-cheatsheet.md
They both are using the curl to get and set the entries in openbmc.
But, the path used is…

akshay gupta
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using busctl to read sensor values in openbmc
I'm trying to explore sensor values and signals in openbmc. I can see the available bus names:
# busctl |grep Sensor|sed -e 's|…

Mark Evans
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how to change ipmi user with one command
i want to change existing user password. i ran this command
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.1 -U USER -P 'PASSWORD' user set password 10 "&UJM2wsx"
i got an error
IPMI command failed: Request data field length limit exceeded
Set User Password…

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