I have an HP Microserver (Gen8) running Debian Jessie. When I first set it up, I installed the optional HP daemons to see what benefit they gave. One, hp-health, interfaces with the onboard iLO controller. I have since disabled the iLO because it requires a license to do anything useful, and I have no need of it. However, this has caused problems - the hp-health package now will not update, and when trying to remove it, I get the following:
root@NAS:/home/gargravarr# dpkg --force-all -P hp-health
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
dpkg: warning: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal
(Reading database ... 47028 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing hp-health (10.40-1815.49) ...
Trying to identify the Product Name...
ERROR: This server is NOT supported!
Error: No supported management controller found
invoke-rc.d: initscript hp-health, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing package hp-health (--purge):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Trying to identify the Product Name...
ERROR: This server is NOT supported!
Error: No supported management controller found
invoke-rc.d: initscript hp-health, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
hp-health
From the dpkg log, it seems like the init script is running hardware checks, failing to detect the iLO and determining it cannot run, thereby returning 1 to the calling command. Unfortunately, this means dpkg receives the exit code. Re-enabling the iLO controller means going into the BIOS and I am not able to do that. Instead, I tried adding an exit 0 into the init script immediately before the standard case statement, but this seems to have done nothing. It's interfering with other package upgrades so it really needs to be uninstalled.
