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

[Arnaud Quette]

2011/1/5 Zach La Celle <lacelle at roboticresearch.com>

>  On 01/04/2011 08:20 AM, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>
>
> 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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> Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
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>
>  The only extra package I could find is the "dev" package.  I'm not sure if
> that contains debugging symbols.
>
> I'm running with the "-DDD" option now.  It hasn't crashed over the
> weekend, so we'll see how long it takes to crash now.  I'm getting source to
> try and rebuild it so that I can walk through in GDB if necessary.
>

have you looked at the pointer I've sent, *and* applied the various
mentioned actions (adding key and repository, refresh apt cache, ...)?

otherwise, you won't see these packages!
I still fail to see what is your exact system (Ubuntu? which version?) apart
from the arch which is x86_64...

cheers,
Arnaud
-- 
Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://powerquality.eaton.com
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org
Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
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