Bug 554112

Summary:	DEVICESCAN -d sat directive does not seem to work anymore
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor>
Component:	smartmontools	Assignee:	Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	frank, mhlavink
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Hardware:	x86_64
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Description Piergiorgio Sartor 2010-01-10 14:53:51 UTC

Description of problem:
In F-11 the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf had simply a DEVICESCAN entry with some options, including "-d sat", and, consequently, all the SATA disks, two in this system, were monitored by "smartd".
In F-12, the very same directive does not seem to work, since no HDD are found.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
smartmontools-5.39-1.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always, as far as I tried.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
Have a configuration file, /etc/smartd.conf, with: 

DEVICESCAN -d sat -S on -a -H -s L/../../7/14 -m root

2.
Start "smartd", with "service smartd restart" (or "start")

3.
Check /var/log/messages for smartd entries.

Actual results:
...
Jan 10 13:52:54 lazy smartd[1865]: smartd 5.39 2009-12-09 r2995 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)#012Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net#012
Jan 10 13:52:54 lazy smartd[1865]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Jan 10 13:52:54 lazy smartd[1865]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices
Jan 10 13:52:54 lazy smartd[1865]: In the system's table of devices NO devices found to scan
Jan 10 13:52:54 lazy smartd[1865]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Jan 10 13:52:54 lazy smartd[1867]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=1867.
Jan 10 13:56:49 lazy smartd[1867]: smartd received signal 15: Terminated
Jan 10 13:56:49 lazy smartd[1867]: smartd is exiting (exit status 0)
...

So, it seems, no ATA or SCSI devices are found.

Expected results:
The same as in F-11, something like:

...
Dec  6 14:13:06 lazy smartd[2159]: smartd version 5.38 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Dec  6 14:13:06 lazy smartd[2159]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#012
Dec  6 14:13:06 lazy smartd[2159]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Dec  6 14:13:06 lazy smartd[2159]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices
Dec  6 14:13:06 lazy smartd[2159]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Dec  6 14:13:06 lazy smartd[2159]: Device: /dev/sda, found in smartd database.
Dec  6 14:13:06 lazy smartd[2159]: Device: /dev/sda, enabled SMART Attribute Autosave.
Dec  6 14:13:06 lazy smartd[2159]: Device: /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Dec  6 14:13:06 lazy smartd[2159]: Device: /dev/sdb, opened
Dec  6 14:13:07 lazy smartd[2159]: Device: /dev/sdb, found in smartd database.
Dec  6 14:13:07 lazy smartd[2159]: Device: /dev/sdb, enabled SMART Attribute Autosave.
Dec  6 14:13:07 lazy smartd[2159]: Device: /dev/sdb, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Dec  6 14:13:07 lazy smartd[2159]: Device: /dev/sdc, opened
Dec  6 14:13:07 lazy smartd[2159]: Device: /dev/sdc, not ATA, no IDENTIFY DEVICE Structure
Dec  6 14:13:07 lazy smartd[2159]: Monitoring 2 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Dec  6 14:13:07 lazy smartd[2198]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=2198.
...

Note that /dev/sdc is a SBP-2 device, hence no smart, but still found and scanned.

Additional info:

Since "smartd" claims it does not find devices to scan, it could be there are none, so this might be a kernel issue or related components.
Unfortunately, I've no idea on how to check this, but I'll be glad to do it, if someone would tell me how.

Of course, changing the DEVICESCAN directive with:

/dev/sda -d sat -S on -a -H -s L/../../7/14 -m root
/dev/sdb -d sat -S on -a -H -s L/../../7/14 -m root

Does work as expected, with following log:

...
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: smartd 5.39 2009-12-09 r2995 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)#012Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net#012
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], opened
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], found in smartd database.
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], enabled SMART Attribute Autosave.
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], opened
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], found in smartd database.
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], enabled SMART Attribute Autosave.
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2343]: Monitoring 2 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Jan 10 13:58:12 lazy smartd[2366]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=2366.
...

Hope this helps,

bye,

pg

Comment 1 Michal Hlavinka 2010-01-11 10:54:12 UTC

hi, thanks for the report

why do you have '-d sat' on DEVICESCAN line? Does it work for you without this?

Comment 2 Piergiorgio Sartor 2010-01-11 12:19:26 UTC

Hi,

(In reply to comment #1)

> why do you have '-d sat' on DEVICESCAN line? Does it work for you without this?    

if I remember correctly, originally, without "-d sat", it was not working.

After a quick investigation, I found out that it was needed, so I've it there.

I'll try without it and report here.

Thanks,

bye,

pg

Comment 3 Piergiorgio Sartor 2010-01-11 15:46:13 UTC

Hi,

it seems you're right, the "-d sat" directive does not appear to be needed anymore and it is even causing the problem.

Removing it seems to fix the issue.

I guess you can close this bug, even if I would suggest to check the documentation, since I cannot remember (but I could be wrong, of course) that this details are specified there.

Thanks a lot for the support,

bye,

pg

Comment 4 Michal Hlavinka 2010-01-18 15:07:20 UTC

After reading a man pages it seems a)it should work b)man pages are out of date, so I've asked upstream for answer.

Comment 5 Michal Hlavinka 2010-01-19 07:15:40 UTC

the answer is A), it should work. It's already reported upsteam

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/ticket/13

I'll wait for their solution and update smartmontools afterwards

Comment 6 Michal Hlavinka 2010-01-20 16:13:18 UTC

fixed in smartmontools-5.39-2.fc12

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-01-20 16:22:47 UTC

smartmontools-5.39-2.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/smartmontools-5.39-2.fc12

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-01-22 22:29:52 UTC

smartmontools-5.39-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update smartmontools'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-0870

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2010-02-09 20:58:53 UTC

smartmontools-5.39.1-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update smartmontools'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-0870

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2010-02-18 22:35:03 UTC

smartmontools-5.39.1-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.