How To Install rasdaemon on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasdaemon on Rocky Linux 8. rasdaemon is Utility to receive RAS error tracings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasdaemon on Rocky Linux 8.

What is rasdaemon

rasdaemon is a RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) logging tool. It currently records memory errors, using the EDAC tracing events. EDAC is drivers in the Linux kernel that handle detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets on i386 and x86_64 architectures. EDAC drivers for other architectures like arm also exists. This userspace component consists of an init script which makes sure EDAC drivers and DIMM labels are loaded at system startup, as well as an utility for reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files.

We can use yum or dnf to install rasdaemon on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rasdaemon.

Install rasdaemon on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install rasdaemon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rasdaemon

Install rasdaemon on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install rasdaemon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rasdaemon

How To Uninstall rasdaemon on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the rasdaemon package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rasdaemon

rasdaemon Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/ras/dimm_labels.d
/etc/ras/dimm_labels.d/dell
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/aea8afecfb469965a4bb37a1a9dd3fbf12d73c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ras-mc-ctl.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rasdaemon.service
/usr/sbin/ras-mc-ctl
/usr/sbin/rasdaemon
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon/README
/usr/share/doc/rasdaemon/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/rasdaemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ras-mc-ctl.8.gz
/var/lib/rasdaemon

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasdaemon on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.