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Package: smokeping
Version: 2.7.3-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I've been running a few small and medium sized smokeping installations
on Debian for a decade. It's been a great tool diagnosing network
outages. Upon upgrading from stretch to buster (2.6.11-3 -> 2.7.3-2),
hundreds of alert emails begun firing every poll. All the Alerts are
configured with "edgetrigger = yes".
For example, here's one, among thousands (notice "was cleared"):
Subject: [SmokeAlert] full-loss was cleared on ipv6.sites.mikrovps-hu
Alert "full-loss" was cleared for
https://smokeping.unzane.com/smokeping/smokeping.cgi?target=ipv6.sites.mikrovps-hu
Pattern
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==100%,==100%,==100%
Data (old --> now)
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loss: 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%
rtt: U, U, U, U, U, U, U, U, U, U, U, U
Comment
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100% packet loss
Initially I discovered this was a problem with my FPing6 probe in
combination with a change introduced in the fping package upgrade
(explanation in fping NEWS.Debian.gz entry). However, after fixing my
Probes, some Targets which really were down, continued to send emails
each polling cycle, defying the edgetrigger setting, and incorrectly
inverting "cleared" vs. "raised".
There is an issue¹ filed upstream that explains the bug, wherein Tobias
Oetiker (author) lackadaisically writes "edge trigger was not in the
original design". The apparent abandonment of the edgetrigger feature
was merely in support of a patch² which increased syslog message
verbosity ("prevmatch" state, instead of being boolean, is now an
incremented number, breaking edgetrigger, merely so some log out put can
express how many times the alert matched).
IMHO, I have too many Alerts defined (not just some-loss/full-loss, but
also many flavors of rtt-50ms, etc.), with edgetrigger to reorganize and
double the Alerts into separate ==0%,==0%,==100% + ==100%,==0%,==0%
non-edgetrigger variants, than is worth the added syslog verbosity.
Besides, the edgetrigger parameter is well documented in four different
man pages. As well as the loss of raised/cleared verbiage in the email
subjects which I have been accustomed to (and have sieve filters which
color the mail green or red via IMAP flags). If the edgetriger feature
can't be fixed, then it's probably be best to remove it from the
documentation and have a NEWS.Debian entry warning of the breakage.
¹ https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/issues/183
² https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/pull/52
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (701, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-cloud-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages smokeping depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii debianutils 4.8.6.1
ii fping 4.2-1
ii libcgi-fast-perl 1:2.13-1
ii libconfig-grammar-perl 1.12-2
ii libdigest-hmac-perl 1.03+dfsg-2
ii libjs-cropper 1.2.2-1
ii libjs-prototype 1.7.1-3
ii libjs-scriptaculous 1.9.0-2
ii librrds-perl 1.7.1-2
ii libsnmp-session-perl 1.14~git20130523.186a005-4
ii liburi-perl 1.76-1
ii libwww-perl 6.36-2
ii lsb-base 10.2019051400
ii perl 5.28.1-6
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.4.5-1
ii ucf 3.0038+nmu1
Versions of packages smokeping recommends:
ii apache2 [httpd-cgi] 2.4.38-3
ii dnsutils 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1
ii echoping 6.0.2-10
ii libsocket6-perl 0.29-1+b1
Versions of packages smokeping suggests:
ii curl 7.64.0-4
pn libauthen-radius-perl <none>
ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 2.060-3
ii libnet-dns-perl 1.19-1
ii libnet-ldap-perl 1:0.6500+dfsg-1
ii libnet-telnet-perl 3.04-1
ii openssh-client 1:7.9p1-10
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/smokeping/config.d/Alerts changed [not included]
/etc/smokeping/config.d/Database changed [not included]
/etc/smokeping/config.d/General changed [not included]
/etc/smokeping/config.d/Probes changed [not included]
/etc/smokeping/config.d/Slaves changed [not included]
/etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets changed [not included]
/etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets'
-- no debconf information
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Source: smokeping
Source-Version: 2.7.3-3
Done: Gabriel Filion <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
smokeping, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Gabriel Filion <[email protected]> (supplier of updated smokeping package)
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Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00:19 +0200
Source: smokeping
Architecture: source
Version: 2.7.3-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Gabriel Filion <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Gabriel Filion <[email protected]>
Closes: 929515 934170
Changes:
smokeping (2.7.3-3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Gabriel Filion ]
* start generating smokeinfo manpage
* postrm: purge, removal of apache2/conf.d/smokeping not needed anymore
* make css and js load from the /smokeping alias (closes: #929515)
* change fix-conf-paths patch to point the daemon to /run/smokeping for its
pid indead of /var/run/smokeping
.
[ Matteo F. Vescovi ]
* debian/patches/: fix-alert-edgetriggers added (Closes: #934170)
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