[Bug 381269] [NEW] NUT fails to shutdown UPS

[Martin Maney]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: nut

It's barely possible that Ubuntu isn't vulnerable to this - I discovered
it, and did the actual smoke tests, on a Debian Lenny machine.  The
problem is that the nut init script's powerdown function relies on
calling upsmon -K at a very late point, and that command fails, whcih
causes the script to imagine that the "kill ups" file is not present.
The reason for the failure is quite simple:

maney at furrr:~$ ldd /sbin/upsmon
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffff45fe000)
	libupsclient.so.1 => /usr/lib/libupsclient.so.1 (0x00007f49ec001000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f49ebc8f000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f49ec207000)

I think we would all have to agree that there's no real use placing an
executable into /sbin when it depends on a library in /usr/lib, yes?

This issue exists present in Debian Lenny and Ubuntu Interpid.  It
probably also affects Hardy and Gutsy, though they have a different sub-
minor version number; however, Debian Etch, with nut 2.0.4, already has
that in its init script.  Etch is not affected by this bug because its
upsmon does NOT have the /usr/lib/libupsclient.so dependency.  I haven't
any machines handy with Jaunty to check at this time.

** Affects: nut (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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NUT fails to shutdown UPS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381269
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