How To Install rasdaemon on Fedora 34

rasdaemon is Utility to receive RAS error tracings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasdaemon on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rasdaemon.

Install rasdaemon on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install rasdaemon

Install rasdaemon on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rasdaemon

rasdaemon Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/ras/dimm_labels.d
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/59de009a9f2823894b5b130c2f8384791a9b7c
/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

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasdaemon on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.