Package: ipmitool Version: 1.8.16-1 Severity: normal Hi there,
after the update to 1.8.16-1 ipmitool segfaults in my setup: :) root@fernst:/etc$ cat /etc/modules-load.d/ipmievd.conf # systemd kernelmodules for ipmitools # ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler ipmi_poweroff #ipmi_si ipmi_watchdog :) root@fernst:/etc$ modprobe ipmi_si # to illustrate why this is commented out modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'ipmi_si': No such device :( root@fernst:/etc$ lsmod | grep ipmi # to illustrate what is present ipmi_watchdog 28672 0 ipmi_poweroff 16384 0 ipmi_devintf 20480 0 ipmi_msghandler 49152 3 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_poweroff,ipmi_watchdog :) root@fernst:/etc$ ls -al /dev/ipmi* ls: cannot access '/dev/ipmi*': No such file or directory :( root@fernst:/etc$ ipmitool sensor list Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory Segmentation fault (core dumped) :( root@fernst:/etc$ grep ipmitool /var/log/syslog | tail -n 1 Mar 2 11:21:49 fernst kernel: [239018.029652] ipmitool[11793]: segfault at ffffffffd73cf058 ip 00007f7287574014 sp 00007fff7ed5d658 error 5 in libc-2.21.so[7f72874f9000+19a000] :) root@fernst:/etc$ Up until 1.8.15-1 this didn't happen: :) root@fernst:/etc$ debsnap --destdir /tmp/ipmitool --architecture amd64 ipmitool 1.8.15-1 :) root@fernst:/etc$ dpkg -i /tmp/ipmitool/ipmitool_1.8.15-1_amd64.deb dpkg: warning: downgrading ipmitool from 1.8.16-1 to 1.8.15-1 (Reading database ... 319057 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../ipmitool_1.8.15-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking ipmitool (1.8.15-1) over (1.8.16-1) ... Setting up ipmitool (1.8.15-1) ... Processing triggers for systemd (228-6) ... Processing triggers for readahead-fedora (2:1.5.6-5.2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... :) root@fernst:/etc$ ipmitool sensor list Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory :( root@fernst:/etc$ Of course it's OK to fail when no suitable device can be found, but ipmitool rather shouldn't segfault in this case. Considering that some monitoring software (e.g. as in my setup check_mk) runs ipmitool on every invocation, quite a lot of segfaults occur. These quickly pile up e.g. when using corekeeper ... Cheers, Flo -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (50, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (50, 'proposed-updates'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (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/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages ipmitool depends on: ii libc6 2.21-9 ii libfreeipmi16 1.4.11-1 ii libncurses5 6.0+20160213-1 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4 ii libssl1.0.2 1.0.2f-2 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160213-1 ii lsb-base 9.20160110 Versions of packages ipmitool recommends: pn openipmi <none> ipmitool suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/modules-load.d/ipmievd.conf changed: ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler ipmi_poweroff ipmi_watchdog -- no debconf information
