hp-health fails to start on CentOS 7 with kernel 4.9

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It was running fine with the stock kernel 3.10.

Since updating the kernel, hp-health does not start successfully.

● hp-health.service - HP System Health Monitor
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/hp-health.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) (Result: core-dump) since Thu 2017-01-12 11:53:06 GMT; 33s ago
  Process: 796 ExecStop=/usr/lib/systemd/scripts/hp-health.sh stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 996 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/scripts/hp-health.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1080 (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)
   CGroup: /system.slice/hp-health.service

Jan 12 11:53:06 hp-tm-46.road-runner.net hp-health.sh[996]: IPMI based System Health Monitor
Jan 12 11:53:06 hp-tm-46.road-runner.net hp-health.sh[996]: Using standard Linux IPMI device driver
Jan 12 11:53:06 hp-tm-46.road-runner.net hp-health.sh[996]: Starting Proliant High Performance
Jan 12 11:53:06 hp-tm-46.road-runner.net hp-health.sh[996]: IPMI based System Health Monitor (hpasmxld):
Jan 12 11:53:06 hp-tm-46.road-runner.net hpasmxld[1080]: StartIpmiRmqThread
Jan 12 11:53:06 hp-tm-46.road-runner.net hpasmxld[1080]: StartIpmiRmqThread: Thread created (TID 2120214272)
Jan 12 11:53:06 hp-tm-46.road-runner.net hpasmxld[1080]: IpmiRmqThread: Entry
Jan 12 11:53:06 hp-tm-46.road-runner.net hpasmxld[1080]: ehpsmb_parse_SMBIOS: SMBIOSInitTable was not successful.
Jan 12 11:53:06 hp-tm-46.road-runner.net hp-health.sh[996]: [  OK  ]
Jan 12 11:53:06 hp-tm-46.road-runner.net systemd[1]: hp-health.service: main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV

hp-health version 10.50.

Does anyone have an idea why or where I should start looking for the problem?

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Reply originally placed by Christian Mertes

I have the same problem now. I just updated today our scientific linux 7.3 system and now the hp-health service does not start. Im still on the current 3.10.0 kernel

~# uname -a
Linux ouga04 3.10.0-693.1.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 15 08:36:44 CDT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
~# service hp-health status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status  hp-health.service
● hp-health.service - HP System Health Monitor
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/hp-health.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) (Result: core-dump) since Wed 2017-08-23 17:35:28 CEST; 5min ago
  Process: 10201 ExecStop=/usr/lib/systemd/scripts/hp-health.sh stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 10249 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/scripts/hp-health.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 10307 (code=dumped, signal=SEGV)

Aug 23 17:35:28 ouga04 hp-health.sh[10249]: IPMI based System Health Monitor
Aug 23 17:35:28 ouga04 hp-health.sh[10249]: Starting Proliant Standard
Aug 23 17:35:28 ouga04 hp-health.sh[10249]: IPMI based System Health Monitor (hpasmlited):
Aug 23 17:35:28 ouga04 hpasmlited[10307]: StartIpmiRmqThread
Aug 23 17:35:28 ouga04 hpasmlited[10307]: StartIpmiRmqThread: Thread created (TID -756406528)
Aug 23 17:35:28 ouga04 hpasmlited[10307]: IpmiRmqThread: Entry
Aug 23 17:35:28 ouga04 hp-health.sh[10249]: [  OK  ]
Aug 23 17:35:28 ouga04 systemd[1]: Started HP System Health Monitor.
Aug 23 17:35:28 ouga04 hpasmlited[10307]: ehpsmb_parse_SMBIOS: SMBIOSInitTable was not successful.
Aug 23 17:35:28 ouga04 systemd[1]: hp-health.service: main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV

~# yum list installed "hp*"
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * elrepo: mirror.imt-systems.com
 * epel: ftp.fau.de
 * repos: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
 * sl: ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de
 * sl-extras: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
 * sl-fastbugs: ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de
 * sl-security: ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de
Installed Packages
hp-ams.x86_64                            2.5.2-2297.2.rhel7   @mcp
hp-firmware-smartarray-ea3138d8e8.x86_64 5.04-1.1             installed
hp-firmware-system-p85.i386              2.40_2017_02_17-2.1  installed
hp-health.x86_64                         10.50-1826.40.rhel7  @mcp
hp-tg3sd.x86_64                          1.0.20-1             installed
hpdiags.x86_64                           10.60.2109-2176      installed
hpijs.x86_64                             1:3.15.9-2.el7       @sl
hplip.x86_64                             3.15.9-2.el7         @sl
hplip-common.x86_64                      3.15.9-2.el7         @sl
hplip-libs.x86_64                        3.15.9-2.el7         @sl
hponcfg.x86_64                           4.6.0-0              installed
hpsmh.x86_64                             7.6.0-11             installed
hpsum.x86_64                             7.6.0-86.rhel7       installed
hpsut.x86_64                             1.6.5.1-4.linux      installed