Moving this to the lm_sensors list.
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:59:45PM +0200, J G Miller wrote:
> I have installed the sensord package (which also caused the rrdtool
> package to be installed as well) but with the included startup argument
> to invoke rrd, sensord crashes
>
> munmap(0x40000000, 4096) = 0
> stat64("/var/log/sensord.rrd", 0xbfffe15c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> time([1080841795]) = 1080841795
> open("/usr/share/zoneinfo/CET", O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=755, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40000000
> read(3, "TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\4\0"..., 4096) = 755
> close(3) = 0
> munmap(0x40000000, 4096) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x4ecffa30, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4ec4e868}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = 3
> fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
> connect(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path="/dev/log"}, 16) = 0
> send(3, "<166>Apr 1 19:49:55 sensord: cr"..., 59, 0) = 59
> rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
>
> Removing the --rrd-file /var/log/sensord.rrd argument from the startup
> line of sensord allowed sensord to startup, with logging going to the default
> syslog.
>
> Since no sensord.rrd file is created, it looks like there is a serious bug
> in the routines to create this file in the sensord executable.
>
> Since this is not a packaging issue, and unless you can offer any advice,
> I should probably report this as a bug to the lm-sensors developpers,
> since I cannot find this bug described at their site.
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 05:33:42PM +0200, J G Miller wrote:
> >From the man page
>
> -r, --rrd-file file
>
> Specify a round-robin database into which to log all sensor
> readings; e.g., `/var/log/sensord.rrd'. This database will be
> created if it does not exist.
>
> Since this feature is broken, it should not be the default setup in the
> installed /etc/init.d/sensord file.
I investigated this and sensord seems to not like using -a and -r
together (logging average load and logging to rrd). Try removing the
-a from the init.d script.
Is this a known problem? Any cure? :)
--
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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