Package: lm-sensors Version: 1:3.1.2-2 Severity: normal If there's an error in the /etc/fancontrol config file, fancontrol init.d script makes it look like everything is OK. Here's a sample session where INTERVAL has been commented out to illustrate the problem:
# cat /etc/fancontrol # Configuration file generated by pwmconfig, changes will be lost #INTERVAL=30 DEVPATH=hwmon0=devices/platform/coretemp.0 hwmon2=devices/platform/w83627ehf.656 DEVNAME=hwmon0=coretemp hwmon2=w83627dhg FCTEMPS=hwmon2/device/pwm2=hwmon0/device/temp1_input hwmon2/device/pwm1=hwmon2/device/temp1_input FCFANS=hwmon2/device/pwm2=hwmon2/device/fan2_input hwmon2/device/pwm1=hwmon2/device/fan3_input MINTEMP=hwmon2/device/pwm2=40 hwmon2/device/pwm1=40 MAXTEMP=hwmon2/device/pwm2=45 hwmon2/device/pwm1=43 MINSTART=hwmon2/device/pwm2=150 hwmon2/device/pwm1=55 MINSTOP=hwmon2/device/pwm2=185 hwmon2/device/pwm1=155 MINPWM=hwmon2/device/pwm2=185 hwmon2/device/pwm1=155 MAXPWM=hwmon2/device/pwm2=255 hwmon2/device/pwm1=255 # /usr/sbin/fancontrol Loading configuration from /etc/fancontrol ... Some mandatory settings missing, please check your config file! # invoke-rc.d fancontrol start Starting fan speed regulator: fancontrol. # ps auxw | grep fanc root 29708 0.0 0.0 1740 540 pts/4 S+ 16:57 0:00 grep fanc # Notice how /usr/sbin/fancontrol script detectes the problem, but init.d script does not. The reason is that it uses start-stop-daemon with the '--background' switch, which says: WARNING: start-stop-daemon cannot check the exit status if the process fails to execute for any reason. Another thing is this check in the init.d script: grep INTERVAL $CONF | cut -d= -f2 This ignores comments as in the above example, but at the same time, even if this would work, other failures will not be detected (say if MINSTOP is lower than MINPWM). -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lm-sensors depends on: ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libsensors4 1:3.1.2-2 library to read temperature/voltag ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.5-8 The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages lm-sensors recommends: ii fancontrol 1:3.1.2-2 utilities to read temperature/volt Versions of packages lm-sensors suggests: pn i2c-tools <none> (no description available) pn read-edid <none> (no description available) pn sensord <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
