Freeipmi.plugin needs symlink on Debian Bullseye to compile

samueljmorris · September 25, 2021, 5:10am

The freeipmi plugin will not compile without the following workarounds in Debian Bullseye based systems:

github.com/netdata/netdata

Failing to build ipmi plugin on Ubuntu 21.04

opened 10:50AM - 29 Jul 21 UTC

closed 04:54PM - 26 Nov 21 UTC

lwbt

bug area/upstream

**Update:** Netdata build scripts---sorry if I use the wrong term here---should …be updated to look for `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc/libipmimonitoring.pc` not just `/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc`. In the meantime you can resolve this build issue with: `sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc/libipmimonitoring.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc` There is another issue which I'm going to file a new bug for where Netdata Cloud dashboard, War Room, Registry or what you call it does not update the list of charts. Which means that things like new discovered IPMI interfaces, imported or new created zpools will not show up on the Node itself when accessed through http://${ip}:19999, but not on https://app.netdata.cloud/spaces/. ---  ##### Bug report summary I tried getting the ipmi plugin to work on my machine, a desktop with a workstation motherboard (ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-Sage SE WIFI) with a recent IPMI chip. I'm running Ubuntu 21.04 at the moment <s>but I can't get it to work. It looks like the package itself had only some minor changes, but the source package has a few more entries in the changelog: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/f/freeipmi/freeipmi_1.6.6-3/changelog</s> ##### OS / Environment  ``` $ uname -a; grep -Hv "^#" /etc/*release Linux za31 5.11.0-25-generic #27-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 9 23:06:29 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux /etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu /etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_RELEASE=21.04 /etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_CODENAME=hirsute /etc/lsb-release:DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 21.04" /etc/os-release:NAME="Ubuntu" /etc/os-release:VERSION="21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)" /etc/os-release:ID=ubuntu /etc/os-release:ID_LIKE=debian /etc/os-release:PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 21.04" /etc/os-release:VERSION_ID="21.04" /etc/os-release:HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" /etc/os-release:SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" /etc/os-release:BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" /etc/os-release:PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" /etc/os-release:VERSION_CODENAME=hirsute /etc/os-release:UBUNTU_CODENAME=hirsute ``` ##### Netdata version  ``` $ netdata -W buildinfo Version: netdata v1.31.0-142-nightly Configure options: '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--with-zlib' '--with-math' '--with-user=netdata' '--enable-plugin-freeipmi' '--with-bundled-lws' 'CFLAGS=-O2' 'LDFLAGS=' Features: dbengine: YES Native HTTPS: YES Netdata Cloud: YES ACLK Next Generation: NO ACLK Legacy: YES TLS Host Verification: YES Libraries: jemalloc: NO JSON-C: YES libcap: NO libcrypto: YES libm: YES LWS: YES static v3.2.2 mosquitto: YES tcalloc: NO zlib: YES Plugins: apps: YES cgroup Network Tracking: YES CUPS: NO EBPF: YES IPMI: YES NFACCT: NO perf: YES slabinfo: YES Xen: NO Xen VBD Error Tracking: NO Exporters: AWS Kinesis: NO GCP PubSub: NO MongoDB: NO Prometheus Remote Write: NO $ $(ps aux | grep -E -o "[a-zA-Z/]+netdata ") -V netdata v1.31.0-142-nightly ``` ##### Installation method  ``` $ bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh) --reinstall --enable-plugin-freeipmi --nightly-channel ``` ##### Component Name  collectors/freeipmi.plugin ##### Steps To Reproduce  1. Install Netdata. 2. Notice that while it runs on a machine with ipmi interface, ipmi charts are missing. - Read https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/freeipmi.plugin/ - Searched forums and tried the following: ``` $ sudo apt install build-essential freeipmi-tools libipmimonitoring-dev $ bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh) --reinstall --enable-plugin-freeipmi --nightly-channel ``` Running `sudo ipmimonitoring` returns data. Installation aborts with: ``` checking if apps.plugin should be enabled... yes checking for libipmimonitoring... no configure: error: ipmimonitoring required but not found. Try installing 'libipmimonitoring-dev' or 'libipmimonitoring-devel' FAILED ^ |.-. .-. .-. .-. .-. . netdata .-. .- | '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' sorry, it failed to build... '-' '-' +----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sorry! netdata failed to build... You may need to check these: 1. The package uuid-dev (or libuuid-devel) has to be installed. If your system cannot find libuuid, although it is installed run me with the option: --libs-are-really-here 2. The package zlib1g-dev (or zlib-devel) has to be installed. If your system cannot find zlib, although it is installed run me with the option: --libs-are-really-here 3. The package json-c-dev (or json-c-devel) has to be installed. If your system cannot find json-c, although it is installed run me with the option: --libs-are-really-here 4. You need basic build tools installed, like: gcc make autoconf automake pkg-config Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required. If you still cannot get it to build, ask for help at github: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues FAILED ABORTED netdata-installer.sh exited with error ``` - Compare libipmimonitoring-dev in Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04, apparently a file has been moved, attempt to resolve this issue: ``` $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc/libipmimonitoring.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libipmimonitoring.pc ``` 3. Installation completes after second attempt, <s>but still no ipmi data.</s> ##### Expected behavior - https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/freeipmi.plugin/ should tell what the proper command and its parameters are to reinstall and enable ipmi plugin, in my opinion. Or I'm wrong here and using the kickstart script is different than installing from source. - <s>ipmi plugin should work after installation, of course. :-)</s>

Adding a note about it to the docs would save a lot of potential headaches. It took me hours to figure out how to fix it.

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