Bug 20852 – acpid does not pass the "full" kernel message to the helper applications defined in the config files

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description David Mott 2003-05-12 11:01:09 UTC]

The manpage for acpid says that %e in the config files gets expanded to the kernel 
message sent to acpid. Because of an uninitialised size(of the string) in the code this is 
a random amount of the message. (Usually either "" or " " or a single character). This 
means the program is basically useless because no message parsing is possible. 
 
 
 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile and run the daemon 
2. Create acpi events while watching the syslog 
3. 
Actual Results:  
for undefined events the message will be meaningless (ie no actual info is given) 

Expected Results:  
Given info as to what event actually occurred (via the default rule)

[Comment 1 David Mott 2003-05-12 11:02:30 UTC]

Created attachment 11822 [details]
An ebuild to use the patch

[Comment 2 David Mott 2003-05-12 11:02:44 UTC]

Created attachment 11823 [details]
An ebuild to use the patch

[Comment 3 David Mott 2003-05-12 11:04:16 UTC]

Created attachment 11824 [details, diff]
Patch - adds one line to the source to fix this major bug

[Comment 4 Hanno Böck 2003-05-13 13:29:09 UTC]

This looks for me as an acpid-bug. Did you send your patch to the acpid-author?

[Comment 5 Hanno Böck 2003-05-13 14:42:14 UTC]

Okay, the acpid-author is working on this and will release a new version within a few days. I'll wait for that and then update the ebuild.

[Comment 6 David Mott 2003-05-14 02:57:40 UTC]

Got the patch from the acpid website... 
 
Thought I would add it here as I didn't know how long til its fixed upstream. 

[Comment 7 Hanno Böck 2003-05-14 14:40:15 UTC]

acpid 1.0.2 is out and added to portage.