[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#569009: snmpd: error on a system without swap

Arnoldas Sareckis hid3nax at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 12:59:17 UTC 2010


Package: snmpd
Version: 5.4.1~dfsg-12
Severity: normal


I run a custom kernel with no support for anonymous swap space:

x4150c:~# cat /boot/config | grep -i swap
# CONFIG_SWAP is not set

Just right after installing snmpd package, I'm getting constant errors in syslog:

Feb  9 14:57:56 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pgpgin line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:57:56 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pgpgout line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:57:56 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pswpin line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:57:56 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pswpout line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:01 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pgpgin line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:01 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pgpgout line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:01 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pswpin line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:01 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pswpout line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:06 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pgpgin line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:06 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pgpgout line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:06 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pswpin line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:06 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pswpout line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:11 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pgpgin line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:11 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pgpgout line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:11 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pswpin line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:11 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pswpout line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:16 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pgpgin line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:16 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pgpgout line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:16 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pswpin line in /proc/vmstat
Feb  9 14:58:16 x4150c snmpd[4063]: No pswpout line in /proc/vmstat


No one is querying the snmpd yet, also it seems there's no config option tu turn off that swap checking...




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.7-hid3 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages snmpd depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.110         add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                    1.5.24        Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                      2.7-18lenny2  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libsnmp15                  5.4.1~dfsg-12 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.q-16      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra

snmpd recommends no packages.

snmpd suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  snmpd/upgradefrom521:





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