[Nut-upsdev] kernel update to 3.12.5-1, now: upsd[617]: getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for ai_socktype

[David C. Rankin]

On 12/16/2013 09:23 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:
> Not sure - I didn't write the getaddrinfo() code in upsd, but it seemed to
> follow all of the recommendations on how to use that function. So if there is
> a way to fix it in the NUT code, I am not aware of it (and would appreciate
> any updates if that turns out to be the case).
> 
> The odd part is that it looks like you went from one Arch revision of glibc
> from 2.18 to 2.18, and most of the mailing list posts I saw while googling
> were regressions going from 2.17 to 2.18. But this is making a bunch of
> assumptions about the kind of changes that might creep in between -10 and
> -11.
> 
> You aren't mixing 32- and 64-bit userspace libraries, are you?
> 

  No, something is messed up in server/upsd.c, but I haven't a clue why. I
modified upsd.c to dump the getaddrinfo parameter to the error log. Beginning
line 192:

        if ((v = getaddrinfo(server->addr, server->port, &hints, &res)) != 0) {
            fprintf(stderr, "=========== Error Block Hit ============\n");
            fprintf(stderr, "getaddrinfo               :  %s\n", gai_strerror(v));
            fprintf(stderr, "Server addr (Nodename)    :  %s\n", server->addr);
            fprintf(stderr, "Server port (Servname)    :  %s\n", server->port);
            fprintf(stderr, "hints.ai_flags            :  %d\n", hints.ai_flags);
            fprintf(stderr, "hints.ai_family           :  %d\n", hints.ai_family);
            fprintf(stderr, "hints.ai_socktype         :  %d\n", hints.ai_socktype);
            fprintf(stderr, "hints.ai_protocol         :  %d\n", hints.ai_protocol);

                if (v == EAI_SYSTEM) {
                        fatal_with_errno(EXIT_FAILURE, "getaddrinfo");
                }

                fatalx(EXIT_FAILURE, "getaddrinfo: %s", gai_strerror(v));
        }

I rebuilt nut and ran it, the error log contained:

Dec 17 10:21:01 phoinix upsd[27151]: =========== Error Block Hit ============
Dec 17 10:21:01 phoinix upsd[27151]: getaddrinfo               :  Servname not
supported for ai_socktype
Dec 17 10:21:01 phoinix upsd[27151]: Server addr (Nodename)    :  192.168.7.16
Dec 17 10:21:01 phoinix upsd[27151]: Server port (Servname)    :  :3493
Dec 17 10:21:01 phoinix upsd[27151]: hints.ai_flags            :  1
Dec 17 10:21:01 phoinix upsd[27151]: hints.ai_family           :  0
Dec 17 10:21:01 phoinix upsd[27151]: hints.ai_socktype         :  1
Dec 17 10:21:01 phoinix upsd[27151]: hints.ai_protocol         :  6

  Huh? Why the : in Servname? So I just hardwired it passing the port "Servname"
as "3493" (could have just used "nut" from /etc/services):

        if ((v = getaddrinfo(server->addr, "3493", &hints, &res)) != 0) {

  I rebuilt nut again and --> BINGO! It started working again just fine. So the
whole problem was something is causing the 'Servname' to be passed with a
leading ':' when passed with the 'server->port' parameter in the getaddrinfo
call at line 192 of upsd.c

  I have NO CLUE what could have changed in the updated packages that cause the
':' to be prepended to server->port, but it is happening. Where do we go from
here to fix it.

  Also, my systemd/system/nut-driver.service file is being generated with the
following:

[Service]
ExecStart=/upsdrvctl start
ExecStop=/upsdrvctl stop
Type=forking

  That obviously fails. Where did the /usr/bin go before the /upsdrvctl?

  Are both these git issues?


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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.