Package: collectd
Version: 4.10.1-1+squeeze2
Severity: normal
If I have a /etc/collectd/plugins/ping.conf file such as:
<Plugin ping>
Host 150.101.140.197
Host 2001:44b8:69:2:1::100
</Plugin>
Then when I start collectd I get log lines like:
Jul 5 18:05:13 ogrady collectd[18720]: ping plugin: ping_host_add
(2001.000000 44b8 69.000000 2.000000 1.000000 100.000000) failed: getaddrinfo:
Name or service not known
Furthermore, if I changed the second Host line to '::1', I don't get these
errnoeous log lines.
I had a look through the source code of collectd-4.10.1/src/ping.c (and
liboping-1.4.0/src/oping.h). Nothing seemed odd there.
After a little further reflection, I suspect the configuration parsing code
in collectd is incorrectly intepretting the Host string from the config file.
The log line output shows that the components of the IPv6 address without any
hex letters were convertered to floating point numbers, and the one part
with hex letters was left as a string.
I tried to follow the collectd parsing code to see if I could identify where
the problem occured, but it's been a fair while since I've done any C
programming, and I got lost in the collectd-4.10.1/src/liboconfig/parser.c code.
I did notice that the upstream collectd.git repository hasn't had any changes
in the src/liboconfig since 2009. This gives me hope that this is a current
upstream bug as well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages collectd depends on:
ii collectd-core 4.10.1-1+squeeze2 statistics collection and monitori
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii librrd4 1.4.3-1 time-series data storage and displ
Versions of packages collectd recommends:
ii iptables 1.4.8-3 administration tools for packet fi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.21.0-2 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libdbi0 0.8.2-3 Database Independent Abstraction L
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libesmtp5 1.0.4-5 LibESMTP SMTP client library
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhal1 0.5.14-3 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libmemcached5 0.40-1 A C and C++ client library to the
ii libmysqlclient16 5.1.49-3 MySQL database client library
ii libnotify1 [libnot 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libopenipmi0 2.0.16-1.2 Intelligent Platform Management In
ii liboping0 1.4.0-1 C/C++ library to generate ICMP ECH
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpcap0.8 1.1.1-2 system interface for user-level pa
ii libperl5.10 5.10.1-17squeeze2 shared Perl library
ii libpq5 8.4.8-0squeeze1 PostgreSQL C client library
ii libprotobuf-c0 0.12-3+b1 Protocol Buffers C library
ii libpython2.6 2.6.6-8+b1 Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii librrd4 1.4.3-1 time-series data storage and displ
ii libsensors4 1:3.1.2-6 library to read temperature/voltag
ii libsnmp15 5.4.3~dfsg-2 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-4squeeze1 SSL shared libraries
ii libtokyotyrant3 1.1.40-4 Tokyo Tyrant runtime libraries
ii libupsclient1 2.4.3-1.1squeeze1 network UPS tools - client library
ii libvirt0 0.8.3-5+squeeze1 library for interfacing with diffe
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library
ii libyajl1 1.0.8-1 Yet Another JSON Library
collectd suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/collectd/collectd.conf changed:
LoadPlugin cpu
LoadPlugin df
LoadPlugin disk
LoadPlugin entropy
LoadPlugin interface
LoadPlugin irq
LoadPlugin load
LoadPlugin memory
LoadPlugin processes
LoadPlugin rrdtool
LoadPlugin swap
LoadPlugin syslog
LoadPlugin users
FQDNLookup "true"
Include "/etc/collectd/plugins/*.conf"
Include "/etc/collectd/thresholds/*.conf"
-- no debconf information
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