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I commented out the line in the PKGBUILD removing the bundled JRE, and now I can use the KVM with no issues. It did double the package size, though.

I'm not sure why it wouldn't use the OpenJDK JRE already installed, but this is an acceptable work around for me.

I'm also getting "Failed to connect to KVM server"

I'm getting "Failed to connect to KVM server" lately. Is this an issue with my system, or does this happen to anybody else too?

Ugh, sorry again. Just pushed a fix. It's strange that both paths (.. and .) work for me locally both when building manually with makepkg as well as with an AUR manager (with a clean cache build dir).

I'll make sure that doesn't regress again in the future.

patch: **** Can't open patch file ../patch-jvm-version-check.patch : No such file or directory

line 37 should be patch --forward --strip=1 --input="patch-jvm-version-check.patch"

Thanks.

@glowingsword ah, yes, thank you. I didn't notice this when building locally since I'm building out of the PKGBUILD git repo (which includes the .patch file). Since the file is both in src/ and the repo, both ./ and ../ work.

I pushed the fix. Sorry for the inconvenience.

2.18 can't build

patch: **** Can't open patch file ../patch-jvm-version-check.patch : No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().

But if we change the

patch --forward --strip=1 --input="../patch-jvm-version-check.patch"

to

patch --forward --strip=1 --input="./patch-jvm-version-check.patch"

it works.

@GaveUp thanks for the patch! I updated the package and applied your patch. Works as expected.

@o0-o: 1.17 is no longer on the supermicro servers. I also ran in to an issue with the check when starting ipmiview that needed to be patched. This patch did the trick for me.

https://gist.github.com/GaveUp/1f8eb2e6d72a63781df391bde2c29d8e

sha512sum is failing on the bundle for me. Also, 2.18 is out now.

==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    IPMIView_2.17.0_build.200505_bundleJRE_Linux_x64.tar.gz ... FAILED
    ipmiview.desktop ... Passed
    ipmiview.png ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

@gu1ll0me: applied your patch, thanks!

@Thermi: I'm hesitant to add an unconventional launch script like that. It would be opaque to the average user that the runtime files are copied to their home dir. It's also likely prone to bugs during installation/removal. In the meantime, I've fixed the backup setting so that the config files are actually preserved with package updates and removal: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=ipmiview&id=0478ae4acb688dddadb83f685eb77324d9bb64e4

Orphaned

Just marked this as out-of-date. If the author doesn't reply within a reasonable amount of time, I'd be happy to orphan and take over this package.

@mortzu See https://pastebin.com/4zVBBjYe lines 16,17,42,43,48,49.

While we're already on the topic of adding stuff, please also add my run.sh script from an older comment of mine on this package. ipmiview stores the user settings (with passwords and all) in the place the IPMIView jar file is in, so in the default setup it's world accessible (/opt/ipmiview). My run.sh copies it all into ~/.local/ipmiview and keeps it up to date with the version in /opt.

@gu1ll0me: What should be added?

Confirmed, but issue also persists after downgrade to 2.16.

Problems seems to be a segfault in an iKVM related lib. Check kernel messages.

KVM console not launching since 2.17.0.

iKVM.properties and stunnel.properties must be added to package() section to make it working.

Thanks

IPMIView_2.17.0_build.200505_bundleJRE_Linux_x64.tar.gz is available.

Please update or orphan

Hey @mortzu, it's all yours! Thanks for wanting to take ownership.

Edit: Ah shit, I should have made you a co-maintainer first. :/

Hi,

to save others from some headache when using multi-version JAVA installations on same system, could please include this as ipmiview in /usr/bin:

#!/bin/sh

export PATH="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/jre/bin/:${PATH}"
exec /opt/ipmiview/IPMIView20 "$@"

Simply linking /opt/ipmiview/IPMIView20 barfs in multi-version JAVA installations with "no JRE found" messages.

Thanks.

Ugh, what the heck? :/

Version 2.17 is not available anymore: https://www.supermicro.com/wftp/utility/IPMIView/Linux/

Here's a patch:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 8ea0128..3318e42 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Maintainer: Donald Webster <fryfrog@gmail.com>

 pkgname=ipmiview
-pkgver=2.16.0
-_pkghash=190815
+pkgver=2.17.0
+_pkghash=191220
 pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Supermicro IPMI tool"
 makedepends=('tar')
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ backup=('account.properties'
 source=("https://www.supermicro.com/wftp/utility/IPMIView/Linux/IPMIView_${pkgver}_build.${_pkghash}_bundleJRE_Linux_x64.tar.gz"
         'ipmiview.desktop')

-sha512sums=('9a6af293a08dcdb662a226c061590e7149e5cee0a69eca12906e4581e254d3293d27e71dd36c301a449a43a10be700f3023f8408bdda5a3b9b65d76c96eaa3d7'
+sha512sums=('17f34626b14c8f8597dbfa892ada95fb07e52912e120c91e55ff2f629dddb4ad7e50c53ffc1005b7c8cafd930e702803b581ae83e2c0fac7d38b29bee41b2331'
             '683922d5ce90116ca04fbf1a244da87296beaf079ecde94d799b2d303e21dfda4e771f5a4b724e7dd64143feaef49d2f11fd2eaf380ebdcf02e9db82c9975497')

 package() {

If you encounter problems with the software, please report it to the developers (like I did), so those problems can be fixed.

@edacval I have explored that a bit. It apparently depends on a client type. See here: https://serverfault.com/a/805070/484655 I do not want to rollback bmc fw anymore, because I am tired of that. But if somebody ask, I could probably make additional tests. I got that "Connection failed" message when trying to kvm into X11SSH-F with 3.55 bmc fw. But when trying to kvm into X9DRW-7TPF mb it works fine (opens ikvm viewer window). Well, kinda. For some reason colors are messed there. But launching jnlp file from X9DRW-7TPF downloaded from web interface has no color issue. So probably parsing session ID and launching apropriate jar file is better solution than running this really shit quality software.

Notes: For X11 it is available html5 viewer (could be launched via redfish also). But it lacks feature of mounting local iso file (again, I do not want to mess with samba shares). SMCIPMItool could be used for that (iso mounting) and also iKVM viewer could be launched with it. SMCIPMItool opened ikvm window normally on X11 3.55 fw, but Authentication failed on X11 3.56 fw. I did not reported that to supermicro, because I hope they better spend their time for implementing javaless virtual media.

@Ashark same problem

Is it currently possible to use Launch KVM Console function in 2.16.0-2 version? I can log in at Login tab, but when going to KVM Console tab and pressing the button to Launch KVM Console I got the message window "Authentication failed".

Ah, nevermind. They're not changing the file w/o updating the version... they were increasing the build number. And their web server still returns something when you request the wrong file.

Fixed, sorry about that! :)

This is weird, the checksum changes every time I download it. :/

There are still problems with the checksum:

# makepkg -f -c -s --noconfirm
==> Making package: ipmiview 2.16.0-1 (Thu Sep 12 08:51:24 2019)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading IPMIView_2.16.0_build.190528_bundleJRE_Linux_x64.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   152  100   152    0     0    287      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   287
100  191k    0  191k    0     0   231k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  231k
  -> Found ipmiview.desktop
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    IPMIView_2.16.0_build.190528_bundleJRE_Linux_x64.tar.gz ... FAILED
    ipmiview.desktop ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
# sha512sum IPMIView_2.16.0_build.190528_bundleJRE_Linux_x64.tar.gz 
978a0625303667544846db08a61fda55af22056a3fc872c5e0b3ec476a555fead2b2d85e7479d830382761da4adf39ff46a244a845e62733e1c723153f89ff69  IPMIView_2.16.0_build.190528_bundleJRE_Linux_x64.tar.gz

_pkghash=190815

sha512sums=('9a6af293a08dcdb662a226c061590e7149e5cee0a69eca12906e4581e254d3293d27e71dd36c301a449a43a10be700f3023f8408bdda5a3b9b65d76c96eaa3d7' '683922d5ce90116ca04fbf1a244da87296beaf079ecde94d799b2d303e21dfda4e771f5a4b724e7dd64143feaef49d2f11fd2eaf380ebdcf02e9db82c9975497')

EDIT: The bug was located and fixed in a beta version after I reported it. The next official release of IPMIView will probably contain that fix.

I debugged the issue and the problem is that the aten supplied iKVM.jar does a reverse DNS lookup and checks for the existence of the hostname + .temp in the working directory, not the existence of the originally used IP address + temp.

IPMIView does not allow the usage of a DNS name in its settings. It does a DNS lookup and saves a IP address in the DNS answer as the address of the system. The UI of IPMIView also names the field "IP address", so using an IP address is expected of the user.

The only case in which iKVM.jar works correctly is if the attempt to retrieve the hostname fails. So you'd need to remove the PTR record for that IP address or create that temp file yourself and then call iKVM.jar from the commandline using the DNS name of the system or move the ip address + .temp named file and move it to the DNS name + .temp.

I have an issue open at supermicro regarding the "missing file" problem. If you report that, too, it might get more priority on their side. You don't need any support contract or something like that to do that.

Up to now the state is that they can't replicate the issue. I have been provided with the 2.14 release, which is the last version that works for me.

Link: https://uploadfiles.io/r0mxti4p

Still shows that "File missing, can not open KVM", even with "new version".

New version. Works if you change pkgver to 2.16.0 and _pkghash to 190528 and then updpkgsums.

A workaround for the "KVM missing file" problem:

cd /opt/ipmiview

java -Djava.library.path=. -jar iKVM.jar $IP $USERNAME $PASSWORD null 5900 623 2 0

replace $IP with your IP or DNS. $USERNAME and $PASSWORD is ADMIN/ADMIN per default config.

Found here: https://www.mcgill.org.za/stuff/archives/340

Is anyone else still having the "file missing" problem when trying to use the KVM? I've tried adding /opt/ipmiview to my $PATH but it still isn't working.

That wouldn't help. The application stores all settings in the directory it is in, so if another user then would try to run it, no settings could be loaded or saved. You basically need to make the application store the files somewhere in $HOME/.config/ipmiview or something, but we can't do it without patching the code, which includes decompiling, patching and recompiling. And that's evidently not an option due to the license. So I opted to just copy all files into the a user specific directory to ensure the the application's setting files are securely stored in $HOME and every user can actually use the application without problems.

:o

I could add a tmpfiles thing that sets permissions to something like 600 maybe?

@fryfrog All files that are not executable are configuration files.

IPMIView creates the configuration files as world read and writable, which includes those files containing your secrets. It creates those file in the directory that the script and java files are in. That is the reason I wrote the script in my last comment that copies all relevant executable files into ~/local/share/ipmiview. It makes sure that your secrets aren't world readable.

@fryfrog the following are the config files that should be placed in backup=:

• account.properties
• email.properties
• IPMIView.properties
• timeout.properties

@Thermi: What file is the settings file? I can just put it in the backup= array and it'll get .pacnew'd instead.

I was fed up with every update nuking my settings, so I made a script that copies the executable files into ~/.local/share/ipmiview and handles upgrades satisfiably. The setting files in your home directory are kept with that approach. The script is available in a Github gist[1]

[1] https://gist.github.com/Thermi/286240c960e21f483a395abf421de6e0

Sorry for the delay, I've made that change. Let me know how it turns out! :)

Hi ifdog, I have same issue with File missing in KVM, and fixed it with adding this line

Path=/opt/ipmiview

in the /usr/share/applications/ipmiview.desktop

I think, that when you launch the ipmiview from ipmiview.desktop it run ipmiview from

$ which ipmiview /usr/bin/ipmiview

with default path of executed binary(/usr/bin/) but in /usr/bin absent the iKVM files like iKVM and iKVM.jar. We need to change the working dir for application in ipmiview.desktop file, or add something in the /usr/bin/ipmiview, but i prefer the modified ipmiview.desktop file.

File missing in KVM too.

@Ashark, I don't actually use this so I'm not sure. If you'd like to be co-maintainer and give it some work, that'd be groovy.

I cannot open KVM Console. Getting Error File missing, can not open KVM But with just unpacked archive and executing ipmiview from there do not have such problem. Maybe you removed some needed files in PKGBUILD?

@Josholith: Thanks, that would be way better. I'll make the change when I get a chance later today. :)

I frequently find myself on (corporate) networks where FTP access is deliberatly blocked. I also block FTP at home. SuperMicro publishes these same IPMIView downloads at an HTTPS location on their site, and I had no problem changing my PKGBUILD to use the HTTPS site and successfully makepkg. Please consider my patch below to make HTTPS your default, since it should work on practically any network and is way more proxy-friendly. Regards, Josh.

https://github.com/Josholith/ipmiview/commit/abab472189bffe4ff618e35a374684bb06a108e7

@grinderz, done! Thanks for the suggestion, saved ~20MB compressed package. Even more on disk I'm sure. :)

you can remove jre dir from installation, no need for bundled jvm.

@alex.forencich: It does, see ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/IPMIView/Linux/. Running updpkgsums downloaded both of them successfully too. Maybe you can't ftp?

The file doesn't exist on the FTP server

I see the Windows version has updated to 2.14, but the Linux version has not.

ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/IPMIView/

Hello,

It seems download url changed, please update package.

ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/IPMIView/Linux/

Thanks!