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

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Zach,

2011/1/10 Zach La Celle <lacelle at roboticresearch.com>

>  On 01/06/2011 08:06 AM, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>
>
> 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
>> --
>> 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/
>>
>>   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/
>
>  I'm having trouble finding the upsd source code, or maybe I just don't
> understand how to run it properly.  The source I have for ubuntu/lucid seems
> to either be for a different UPSD project, or to run very differently than
> the version off of the Ubuntu repositories.  Can you point me to the correct
> source for upsd?
>

to get the one for your binary, check that you have a "deb-src" line for
main in your /etc/apt/sources.list
then "apt-get source nut"
or get the source here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/nut

note that upsd package is a completely different project.

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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