Thanks for your report. Let's rule out the simplest hypothesis: are you running the command as root? I can reproduce the error you observe running ipmitool as an unprivileged user:
$ ls -l /dev/ipmi0 crw------- 1 root root 239, 0 May 30 13:39 /dev/ipmi0 $ ipmitool lan print Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory $ sudo ipmitool lan print Set in Progress : Set Complete Auth Type Support : Auth Type Enable : Callback : : User : : Operator : : Admin : : OEM : IP Address Source : Static Address [...] Can you please verify this? I'm marking this report as "Incompete" for the moment, please change the status back to "New" after providing the additional information. Thanks! ** Changed in: openipmi (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836701 Title: ubuntu18.04: ipmitool failed: Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 : No such file or directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openipmi/+bug/1836701/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs