Boot Error -> ipmi:dmi : Invalid offset : 0

Question

I'm having the following error when booting my OS (Linux mint19 - mate):

ipmi:dmi: Invalid offset : 0

I would appreciate if someone has more information about this.

There's a ubuntu user here on this forum struggling with this error when he was installing the OS, but I'm having this error during the boot.

Also, this error is reproducible for me. It appears everytime I hibernate and shut down after that. So I guess that could be something related to hibernation or the grub.

Googling, I found some users saying that is related do SSD Trim and you must disable this feature to avoid the error, but I don't have a SSD here (running on my laptop HD).

Can anyone help me with this?

Solution

This is absolutely kernel-related. So that, even kernels provided in the iso by the distribution officially may cause this (in my case it was 4.13 with all *buntus I tried that day, though it was the official in the iso).

So, just try newer kernels or older but particularly "Long Term Maintenance" ones, best..

For today, kernel 4.9.xxx seems to solve the issue. Please also see :

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=104&t=51644