A small tool for interfacing with the control module on DELL servers is the “ipmitool” package. It comes in handy when you need to do some basic detective work but do not want the baggage that comes along with the Dell OpenManage packages. ipmitool sel list ipmitool sel clear You can even get fancy with
There are times in technology when something goes wrong. It happens. It’s the cost of progress. It can be at lot of fun finding what caused things to go wrong and then fixing it. Follow this trip, for instance. Hopefully it helps someone else with google hosted addresses which forward to an internal mailing list
[EDIT: Further examination revealed that a majority of the problems experienced were related to the glibc + kernel included with Fedora 18 and the updated glibc+kernel for Fedora 17. The result was the same in both situations: unstable VIA and IVTV drivers.] Fedora 18 has the release name “Spherical Cow”. It should probably be