hpasmd eats all CPU on old DL385

[fabbe]

Hi,

I'm trying to install Debian 6.0 (squeeze) on an old DL385. Everything else works fine, but I have trouble with the hpasmd daemon. I'm using the hp-health package from the HP Software Delivery Repository (http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/), and although it installs fine, the hpasmd daemon just sits around and eats 100% CPU and doesn't respond.

Here are some examples:

$ hplog -f
hplog: Cannot open /dev/cpqhealth/proc.
Could not get temperature data. Make sure the health monitor is activated

$ hpasmcli

ERROR: Could not open /dev/cpqhealth/cdt.
Please make sure the Health Monitor is started.

although hpasmd is running. It's probably just running a busy loop and not serving any requests.

Any ideas?

[fabbe]

I forgot to mention explicitly that this is an amd64 machine (dual Opteron 250).

[fabbe · Accepted solution]

I found a solution. First, I loosely followed the instructions here to manually install an old version of hpasm (7.4.0). Then, I found that if I pass -m DISABLED -n DISABLED to hpasmd, it works! It only eats a bit of CPU for 10-20 seconds after startup, and after that, it sits quietly in the background. hplog and hpasmcli work perfectly.

[chris2992]

Thank you very much for your solution! I tried many things to get the HP tools run on Debian 6.0 AMD64. Using the old files helped a lot.