On 12/14/2013 03:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Disregard the previous information in this thread. Here is the new information: After upgrade to kernel 3.12.5-1 and glic 2.18-11, network-ups-tools (upsd) fails to start giving the error: getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for I had spent the last couple of days working with nut, so I was very familiar with how it was starting on this box. Literally, nothing else changed, it looks the update killed it. Here is the journalctl log per/post reboot for kernel update when glibc was updated: Dec 14 14:02:00 phoinix systemd[1]: Starting Network UPS Tools - power devices information server... Dec 14 14:02:00 phoinix upsd[32616]: fopen /var/state/ups/upsd.pid: No such file or directory Dec 14 14:02:00 phoinix upsd[32616]: listening on 192.168.7.16 port 3493 Dec 14 14:02:00 phoinix upsd[32616]: listening on ::1 port 3493 Dec 14 14:02:00 phoinix upsd[32616]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 Dec 14 14:02:00 phoinix upsd[32616]: listening on 192.168.7.16 port 3493 Dec 14 14:02:00 phoinix upsd[32616]: listening on ::1 port 3493 Dec 14 14:02:00 phoinix upsd[32616]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 Dec 14 14:02:00 phoinix upsd[32617]: Startup successful Dec 14 14:02:00 phoinix systemd[1]: Started Network UPS Tools - power devices information server. Dec 16 14:05:26 phoinix systemd[1]: Stopping Network UPS Tools - power devices information server... Dec 16 14:05:26 phoinix upsd[21265]: Network UPS Tools upsd 2.7.1-signed-9-g6fb35b3 Dec 16 14:05:26 phoinix systemd[1]: Stopped Network UPS Tools - power devices information server. -- Reboot -- Dec 16 14:05:16 phoinix systemd[1]: Starting Network UPS Tools - power devices information server... Dec 16 14:05:16 phoinix upsd[369]: fopen /var/state/ups/upsd.pid: No such file or directory Dec 16 14:05:16 phoinix upsd[369]: getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for ai_socktype Dec 16 14:05:16 phoinix upsd[369]: Network UPS Tools upsd 2.7.1-signed-9-g6fb35b3 Dec 16 14:05:16 phoinix systemd[1]: nut-server.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Dec 16 14:05:16 phoinix systemd[1]: Failed to start Network UPS Tools - power devices information server. Dec 16 14:05:16 phoinix systemd[1]: Unit nut-server.service entered failed state. Is this a glibc issue or a nut issue? Sorry for continuing this in the same thread, but I could not create a new thread because: Posting of your message titled "nut UPS (upsd) fails to start after kernel upgrade (3.12.5-1) error: getaddinfo" has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the following reason for rejecting your request: "Stop creating brand new threads for discussing related issues. Cheers. --Gaetan" So if you think this should be in a new thread and not here -- talk to Gaetan. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.