[Bug 839509] [NEW] nut can not log to syslog when shutdown

[Arnaud Quette]

2011/9/2 Dmitriy Altuhov <dima at altuhov.su>

> Public bug reported:
>
> Ubuntu 11.04
> NUT 2.6.0
>
> System shutting down (battery low, FSD set) and executes /etc/init.d
> /ups-monitor poweroff
>
> ups-monitor script contains section "poweroff". in this section we can
> see log_daemon_msg which sends info to  syslog
>
> but rsyslogd already stopped.
>
> This is in syslog when shutdown:
> Sep  2 17:37:58 gwlin upsmon[1229]: Signal 10: User requested FSD
> Sep  2 17:37:58 gwlin upsd[1225]: Client local_mon at 127.0.0.1 set FSD on
> UPS [ippon]
> Sep  2 17:37:58 gwlin upsmon[1229]: Executing automatic power-fail shutdown
> Sep  2 17:37:58 gwlin upsmon[1229]: Auto logout and shutdown proceeding
> Sep  2 17:38:03 gwlin kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
> Sep  2 17:38:03 gwlin rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
> swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="374" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] exiting on
> signal 15.
>

I'm not sure if this can be considered as a bug (not that it's a feature!).
log_*_msg are not only used to log in the syslog (when available), but also
to display info on the console...
by the time we reach the end of the shutdown process, FS are remounted
read-only.
so even if syslogd was still active, it would not be able to log in the FS
syslog file!

cheers,
Arnaud
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