On 8/16/24 11:32, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
Boot process f40 system stops for a long time with a problem with
smartd. Seems to access the system drives and note that they are SMART
capable. The following entries are in the journal
smartd[977]: Warning via /usr/libexec/smartmontools/smartdnotify to
root produced>>
smartd[977]: No configuration file found at (null) or /etc/esmtprc
After multiple entries
smartd[977]: No configuration file found at (null) or /etc/esmtp
The files referenced are not in /etc. Don't see such files on a f39
system
What is the system looking to find and where can it be found.
esmtp is a mail transfer agent (MTA). Use "sudo dnf info esmtp" to see
its Fedora package info. I know that on Fedora smartd is configured by
default to send e-mail when it detects a problem on a disk. It may be
that your system is configured to use esmtp to send mail and smartd has
found a disk problem and is hanging when it tries to email you because
esmtp is not configured properly. If that is the case then you would
need to put the proper mail server, userid and password into file
mentioned, /etc/esmtprc, to make it all work. Or, you could go into
/etc/smartmontools/smartd.conf and change the configuration so it
doesn't try to send emails.
To check to see if esmtp is actually the MTA your system is configured
to use: "sudo alternatives --config mta"
To confirm that there is a disk problem that smartd is trying to notify
you about: do "sudo smartctl --scan" to find the disk devices smart
knows about and then do "sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX" for one of the
listed devices.
--
David King
dave at daveking dot com
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