This is also affecting a confined xenial LXC environment, and was fixed by adding "--exclude-type=tracefs" on the check_all_disks command definition at /etc/nagios-plugins/config/disk.cfg
monitoring-plugins-basic should be updated with the above. ** Tags added: canonical-bootstack -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of AIMS, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1516451 Title: check_disk plugin broken after upgrade to 15.10 Status in nagios-plugins package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I didn't touch my Nagios config, just update my system from 15.04 to 15.10. Suddenly the default localhost/Disk Space check fails with the following output: DISK CRITICAL - /sys/kernel/debug/tracing is not accessible: Permission denied This can be reproduced when manually running the underlying command as user "nagios": $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w '20%' -c '10%' -e DISK CRITICAL - /sys/kernel/debug/tracing is not accessible: Permission denied When I run it as root it works: # /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w '20%' -c '10%' -e DISK OK| /dev=0MB;1186;1334;0;1483 /run=8MB;239;269;0;299 /=17157MB;57386;64559;0;71733 /dev/shm=0MB;1199;1349;0;1499 /run/lock=0MB;4;4;0;5 /sys/fs/cgroup=0MB;1199;1349;0;1499 /boot=48MB;181;204;0;227 /run/user/0=0MB;239;269;0;299 Seems "nagios" user can't access the dir it tries to access: # ls -la /sys/kernel/debug/tracing drwx------ 7 root root 0 Nov 15 19:40 . # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 15.10 Release: 15.10 # apt-cache policy nagios-plugins-basic nagios-plugins-basic: Installed: 1.5-3ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.5-3ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1.5-3ubuntu1 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nagios-plugins/+bug/1516451/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~aims Post to : aims@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~aims More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
