diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/IPMI.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/IPMI.pm
index b4f9e467d..3e8002081 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/IPMI.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/IPMI.pm
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ my $pendingpackets=0;
 my %tabooseq; #TODO: this is a global which means one taboo in the whole set causes unrelated session objects to consider it taboo unnecessarily
 my $maxpending; #determined dynamically based on rcvbuf detection
 my $ipmi2support;
-if ( -f "/etc/debian_release" ){
+if ( -f "/etc/debian_release" or -f "/etc/debian_version"){
     $ipmi2support = eval {
         require Digest::SHA;
         Digest::SHA->import(qw/sha1/);