Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nut
/var/log/daemon.log is rapidly filled with lines like this:
Mar 10 00:27:44 alanya apcsmart[4944]: Communications with UPS lost: timeout
Mar 10 00:27:44 alanya upsd[4946]: Data for UPS [ups] is stale - check driver
Mar 10 00:27:44 alanya apcsmart[4944]: smartmode: ser_send_char failed:
Input/output error
Mar 10 00:27:44 alanya apcsmart[4944]: Communications with UPS lost:
Communications with UPS lost - check cabling
Mar 10 00:27:44 alanya apcsmart[4944]: smartmode: ser_send_char failed:
Input/output error
Mar 10 00:27:44 alanya apcsmart[4944]: Communications with UPS lost:
Communications with UPS lost - check cabling
...
Mar 10 08:27:27 alanya apcsmart[4944]: Communications with UPS lost:
Communications with UPS lost - check cabling
Mar 10 08:27:27 alanya apcsmart[4944]: smartmode: ser_send_char failed:
Input/output error
Mar 10 08:27:27 alanya apcsmart[4944]: last message repeated 9 times
...
Until the filesystem that contains /var/log fills up. In the one second Mar 10
00:27:45 it logged 8148 lines, with each with "smartmode: ser_send_char failed:
Input/output error" "repeated 9 times". So apcsmart sent about 27000 messages
per second to syslog.
I would like to ask apcsmart to take it easy and back off after an
error. ;-)
Ubuntu 9.10
nut 2.4.1-3ubuntu2
I will not attach the complete daemon.log, It is almost one GB.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 10 09:50:54 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: nut 2.4.1-3ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: nut
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
** Affects: nut (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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Excessive logging by apcsmart program
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/535583
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