BMC firmware update on PE2950 failed

[Christian Placzek]

Hello,

I tried to update the firmware of the BMC device and ran into
a 'deadlock':

First I start the machine in single user mode. Then start I start
the update package PE2950_ESM_FRMW_LX_R149881.BIN. All prerequisites are fine:


<snap>

ipmi device interface
.......................................................................
Running validation...

Baseboard Management Controller

The version of this Update Package is newer than the currently installed 
version.
Software application name: BMC
Package version: 1.33
Installed version: 1.14

Continue? Y/N:Y
Executing update...
WARNING: DO NOT STOP THIS PROCESS OR INSTALL OTHER DELL PRODUCTS WHILE UPDATE
IS IN PROGRESS.
THESE ACTIONS MAY CAUSE YOUR SYSTEM TO BECAME UNSTABLE!
.
The OpenIPMI driver is currently loaded. Please unload the driver before
executing.

#
</snap>

I have stopped the dsm_sa_ipmi service manually but the same message occurs.
It seems the update process automatically starts the IPMI drivers. 

The setup of the machine:

PE2950, 
8 GiB Ram, 
SAS-RAID,
Debian Etch 4.0 amd64

All other updates where successful: 
- mainboard BIOS: v. 1.3.7
- Perc 5/i: v. 5.1.1-0040
- SAS backplane: v. 1.05

To install this updates I have installed dellomsa from 'ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/sara-omsa'.
This package have many dependencies. The most are belonging to the 32-bit library 
'ia32-libs '. The packages 'libopenipmi0' and 'openipmi' were installed also.


Did I missed something or is it a bug?


Kind regards

Kris