[Nut-upsuser] upsd crashes with a "broken pipe" error

[Arnaud Quette]

2011/1/4 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Zach La Celle
> <lacelle at roboticresearch.com> wrote:
> > On 12/29/2010 10:00 AM, Zach La Celle wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12/29/2010 08:34 AM, Charles Lepple wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Dec 27, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Zach La Celle wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I ran this in debug mode and captures the backtrace.
> >>>>
> >>>> root@*********:/etc/nut# upsd -D
> >>>> Network UPS Tools upsd 2.4.3
> >>>>  0.000000     listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3493
> >>>>  0.000354     Connected to UPS [rack1ups]: apcsmart-rack1ups
> >>>>  2.550554     User upsmon at 127.0.0.1 logged into UPS [rack1ups]
> >>>> *** glibc detected *** upsd: free(): invalid next size (fast):
> >>>> 0x00000000012c9870 ***
> >>>
> >>> Can you give us some background information about this system? What OS
> >>> and version, who built the package, etc.
>
> Just to be sure, are you running the Ubuntu-provided package, or
> something from another package repository? Which version of Ubuntu?
>
> Running valgrind might produce similarly opaque results without debug
> symbols (which you can enable if you build from source).


debug syms are available as separate debs.
As an example, for Ubuntu, look here:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/DebuggingProgramCrash

then look for installing {nut,libupsclient}-dbgsym and others if needed
otherwise...

That is a bit
> more involved, though (especially if you want to keep the installed
> files in the same place) so I'd try that after Arjen's suggestion with
> "-DDD".
>

seconded for a first run.

cheers,
Arnaud
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