From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: My disk layout is special, I've had to put the HDD on the secondary IDE controller, while the CD in on the primary. During the system boot, the service smartd couldn't start. I found out /etc/smartd.conf was pointing to /dev/hda and not /dev/hdc like it should be. I suppose it's not configured by the install scripts. Just to tell.. Cheers, zimba Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.131 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put your CD-ROM drive on primary and HDD on secondary IDE controller 2. Install FC2 Actual Results: The daemon smartd doesn't start Expected Results: The daemon smartd should start /etc/smartd.conf should be configured right Additional info: None
Hi Jonas, There have been a number of similar reports, about the way in which /etc/smartd.conf is configured 'out of the box' in Fedora core. I don't know if the maintainers plan to change this in the future. As you suggest, an installer which configures smartd.conf based on the machine's hardware would make sense. An alternative is to use the DEVICESCAN directive in /etc/smartd.conf, but this could potentially cause problems with some USB devices (although I think that in recent smartmontools releases such as 5.30 this is unlikely to happen, since a great deal of sanity-checking is done). Cheers, Bruce
Okay, Thanks for your advice, I really looked in the search but didn't find those cases. Too bad, I wanted to post my first real bug :) Cheers, Jonas
Yes, it's basically a duplicate of http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110747
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110747 ***