[collectd] Collectd and sensors plugin issues

[valent.turkovic at gmail.com]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:03 AM, valent.turkovic at gmail.com
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:07 AM, valent.turkovic at gmail.com
> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> my first contact with collectd was a year ago on openwrt and now I'm
>> using it to troubleshoot and monitor all of wifi routers.
>> I just started to test it on my desktop and have some issues with
>> sensors plugin.
>>
>> I have "sensors-detect" do it's thing and "sensors" returns
>> temperatures from all 4 cpu cores.
>>
>> When I enable sensors plugin in collectd all hell breaks loose in log files...
>> See for yourself - http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=x1YqFZ9P
>>
>> This is my collectd config file - http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=QcebVMFR
>>
>> As you can see I just loaded sensors plugin without options because
>> any options I tried resulted in collectd not collecting data.
>>
>> Any suggestion would be helpful, and if you need any more feedback
>> from me just say what info you need.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Valent.
>>
>
> Sorry, I failed to mention versions of collectd that are used, so here they are:
>
> # grep collectd /var/log/yum.log
> Jan 04 13:19:30 Installed: collectd-4.10.4-1.fc16.x86_64
> Jan 04 13:23:04 Installed: collectd-rrdtool-4.10.4-1.fc16.x86_64
> Jan 04 13:23:04 Installed: collectd-web-4.10.4-1.fc16.x86_64
> Jan 04 13:23:04 Installed: collectd-ping-4.10.4-1.fc16.x86_64
> Jan 04 13:23:04 Installed: collectd-sensors-4.10.4-1.fc16.x86_64
>
> What is the proper way to report sensors module bug? Log files are
> being hammered with errors all the time and are growing really big.

After a bit of digging I found out that Lubos Stanek was last one that
worked on sensors plugin [1], but it hasn't been touched since version
3.11 (December 2006) [2].

Has anybody seen this issue on some other systems? Could this be
Fedora issue and not collectd issue? How to troubleshoot this issue
further?

[1] Sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving
this plugin, including extended naming, collection of voltage values
and the possibility to ignore certain values.

[2] http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Version_3.11