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Package: smokeping
Version: 2.7.3-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
This issue occurs when my smokeping host comes up before my dnsmasq host
(which currently waits during boot for my VDSL modem to gain sync...).
The result is that smokeping takes longer to start up than systemd is willing
to wait:
root@yakka:~# systemctl status smokeping.service
● smokeping.service - Latency Logging and Graphing System
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smokeping.service; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Tue 2021-10-19 06:35:59 AWST;
11h ago
Docs: man:smokeping(1)
file:/usr/share/doc/smokeping/examples/systemd/slave_mode.conf
Process: 1187 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smokeping --pid-dir=/run/smokeping
(code=killed, signal=TERM)
CPU: 418ms
Oct 19 06:34:28 yakka systemd[1]: Starting Latency Logging and Graphing
System...
Oct 19 06:34:47 yakka smokeping[1187]: WARNING: Hostname 'mazikeen' does
currently not resolve to an IPv6 or IPv4 address
Oct 19 06:34:59 yakka smokeping[1187]: WARNING: Hostname 'jackpc' does
currently not resolve to an IPv6 or IPv4 address
Oct 19 06:35:12 yakka smokeping[1187]: WARNING: Hostname 'vins-pc' does
currently not resolve to an IPv6 or IPv4 address
Oct 19 06:35:24 yakka smokeping[1187]: WARNING: Hostname 'hoffman' does
currently not resolve to an IPv6 or IPv4 address
Oct 19 06:35:36 yakka smokeping[1187]: WARNING: Hostname
'sebastian.murdoch.edu.au' does currently not resolve to an IPv6 or IPv4 address
Oct 19 06:35:48 yakka smokeping[1187]: WARNING: Hostname 'dummy' does
currently not resolve to an IPv6 or IPv4 address
Oct 19 06:35:59 yakka systemd[1]: smokeping.service: start operation timed
out. Terminating.
Oct 19 06:35:59 yakka systemd[1]: smokeping.service: Failed with result
'timeout'.
Oct 19 06:35:59 yakka systemd[1]: Failed to start Latency Logging and
Graphing System.
I think that in the interests of robustness, it would be better that startup
not involve attempting to resolve every target hostname. Perhaps DNS
activity could instead be deferred until after the daemon forks?
I'd rather not add names to /etc/hosts, as the monitored hosts are either
DHCP-assigned, or are not under my control.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500,
'oldoldstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (480, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages smokeping depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii debianutils 4.11.2
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.94.2-7
ii fping 5.0-1
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 1.7.2-3+b7
ii libsnmp-session-perl 1.14~git20130523.186a005-4
ii liburi-perl 1.76-1
ii libwww-perl 6.36-2
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii perl 5.32.1-4+deb11u2
ii ucf 3.0043
Versions of packages smokeping recommends:
pn apache2 | apache2 | httpd <none>
ii bind9-dnsutils [dnsutils] 1:9.16.15-1
ii dnsutils 1:9.16.15-1
ii echoping 6.0.2-10
ii libsocket6-perl 0.29-1+b3
ii nginx-light [httpd-cgi] 1.18.0-6.1
Versions of packages smokeping suggests:
ii curl 7.74.0-1.3+b1
pn libauthen-radius-perl <none>
ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 2.060-3
ii libnet-dns-perl 1.19-1
pn libnet-ldap-perl <none>
pn libnet-telnet-perl <none>
ii openssh-client 1:8.4p1-5
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/smokeping/config.d/Probes 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
-MD
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Michael Deegan Hugaholic https://www.deegan.id.au/
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: smokeping
Source-Version: 2.8.2+ds-2
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)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:15:57 -0500
Source: smokeping
Architecture: source
Version: 2.8.2+ds-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Gabriel Filion <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Gabriel Filion <[email protected]>
Closes: 996824 1092937 1110355 1112079 1115747
Changes:
smokeping (2.8.2+ds-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[Gabriel Filion]
* Add missing libinfluxdb-http-perl to suggests. That's used by a new
optional feature from 2.8.x
* Remove echoping -- which does not exist anymore in debian archives -- from
dependencies (Closes: #1115747)
* This had already been fixed by Christoph Biedl for 2.7.3 but the change
was unfortunately lost in the push of the new upstream version for 2.8.x
* Delay startup order in systemd to avoid starting smokeping before DNS
resolution is available (Closes: #996824)
* SSH Probe: remove DSA and add ed25519 support (Closes: #1110355)
* Mark package as compatible with `httpd` in general to permit installing
with webservers other than apache2.
.
[Jonathan Dowland]
* Bring back two missing changelog entries from NMUs (Closes: #1092937)
.
[Sebastian Badia]
* Use apache2 fcgid handler by default
.
[Alexey Vazhnov]
* Add nginx configuration example
.
[Matija Nalis]
* Use modern user:group separator for chown in init script (Closes: #1112079)
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