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4 Replies Last post: Nov 2, 2009 5:35 PM by sgstuart

(hpmgmt) hp-OpenIPMI will not uninstall posted: Oct 29, 2009 5:53 PM

sgstuart

69 posts since
Jun 1, 2005

Hi All,

I am hitting my head against the wall way too long now, and I am asking for help. 1 and only 1 of our many ESX boxes is having this problem. It (they all are) a 3.5.0 update 4 server. I have not been able to install hpmgmt 8.2, because it says there are some already installed. rpm and --uninstalls show that there are 2 installed a 7.8 version and a 7.9 version. When trying to uninstall using rpm -e hp-OpenIPMI-7.9.0-110.vmware30 it says that

Upgrades are not permitted for the hp-OpenIPMI package.

Please remove the package using the command: rpm -e hp-OpenIPMI

error: %prerun(hp-OpenIPMI-7.9.0-110.vmware30) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

when I run rpm -e hp-OpenIPMI by it self it has the same 3 lines after this 1 line error: "hp-OpenIPMI" specifies multiple packages so it is stuck in a recursive logic (at least not programatically )

I have stopped pegasus and I do not have an hpasm to stop. I have not found anything else helpful.

Thanks,
Steven Stuart

Re: (hpmgmt) hp-OpenIPMI will not uninstall

1. Oct 29, 2009 7:50 PM

in response to: sgstuart

jonathanp

253 posts since
Sep 2, 2005

Try to see if you get the correct package name by running :

rpm -qa | grep hp-OpenIPMI

then retry with correct package name : rpm -e "package name"

if nothing works and your not afraid that this can cause other issue to your systems, you may try to force the removal by using something like this :

rpm --force -e hp-OpenIPMI

or

rpm --force --nodeps -e hp-OpenIPMI

Jonathan

Re: (hpmgmt) hp-OpenIPMI will not uninstall

2. Nov 2, 2009 8:21 AM

in response to: jonathanp

sgstuart

69 posts since
Jun 1, 2005

Hi Jonathan,

I had already done the

rpm -e "Package name"
that was the first thing that I put in my question. It was a good suggestion though.

rpm --force -e hp-OpenIPMI

gives the following error.

rpm: only installation, upgrading, rmsource and rmspec may be forced, so that is not helping.

Please any other suggestions. Even if I have to go in a delete individual files, or delete things that makes the system (or at least rpm) not think that it is installed.

Thanks,
Steven Stuart

Re: (hpmgmt) hp-OpenIPMI will not uninstall

3. Nov 2, 2009 1:48 PM

in response to: sgstuart

msemon1

292 posts since
Apr 5, 2005

It sounds like you are having problems with the HP Fibre agents like I was. Here was our fix

Disabling HP Fibre Channel Agents

To Eliminate SCSI reservation errors caused be HPIM agents, the following agents are recommended to be disabled:

Cmafcad
Cmahost

To disable the Fibre Agent:

1. Log into the ESX Server host service console.
2. Stop all management agents.

Service hpasm stop

Stop IPMI driver
lsmod |grep ipmi
lsof -a/dev/ipmi0
service pegasus stop
modprobe -r ipmi

Disable IPMI
chkconfig --level 12345 ipmi off

Service hpsmhd stop

Open the file /opt/Compaq/cma.conf in text editor (Nano)
Add exclude cmahost cmahostd cmafcad to the top of the file.
Save the file and exit editor
6. Issue the following commands.

Service hpasm start
Service hpsmhd start

Hope that helps.

Mike

Re: (hpmgmt) hp-OpenIPMI will not uninstall

4. Nov 2, 2009 5:35 PM

in response to: msemon1

sgstuart

69 posts since
Jun 1, 2005

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your response. I do not have an HP Fibre Channel Agent. However, I decided to give your stuff a whirl. First hpasm does not exist, states unrecognized service.
The lsmod line gives me

ipmi_devintf
ipmi_si_drv
ipmi_msghandler

The lsof line did nothing (at least nothing apparent)
The pegasus service was/is already stopped
The modprobe line did nothing (at least nothing apparent)

I ran the chkconfig line
The hpsmhd service does not exist
and there is no cma.conf file under /opt/compaq (there is only a utils folder with a IrqRouteTable file in it)

Thanks,
Steven Stuart

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