Bug#382378: [Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#382378: snmpd 5.1.2-6.2 bug

Jimmy Stewpot squid at oranged.to
Fri Aug 11 09:36:02 UTC 2006


Hello Jochen,

Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> merge 308018 382361 382378
> thanks
> 
> Hi Jimmy,
> 
>> When I query a debian 3.1 server using snmp for idle ticks which should
>> indicate that the server is loaded or not. After a large amount of
>> uptime (circa 270days) the servers all report the idle ticks not
>> increasing even though the server has been idle for some time. If I run
>> the following command  awk '/^cpu / {print $5}' /proc/stat I can see
>> that the counter is still incrementing but snmpd reports
>>
>> UCD-SNMP-MIB::ssCpuRawIdle.0 = Counter32: 4294967295
> 
> 
> This is already documented in #308018. The bug should be fixed in testing
> (currently with version 5.2.2-5). As this bug isn't security related, it
> won't be fixed in the current stable branch. However, i'm considering
> uploading a 5.2.2-4.backports.org.1 to backports.org for those who want
> to try a newer version on sarge.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jochen

Thanks for the update, If you could supply the package through backports 
that would be a huge relief for us. We currently have several hundred 
debian boxes which show these problems. Any fix is great.

Regards,





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