ERROR PHP NOTICE: fputs(): Write of 53 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe in file

[alexvelitsky]

Hi team,

my cacti server is:

:~$ sudo /usr/share/cacti/cli/add_graphs.php --version
Cacti Add Graphs Utility, Version 1.2.22 (DB: 1.2.22), Copyright (C) 2004-2022 The Cacti Group

MariaDB [cacti]> select * from version;
+--------+
| cacti |
+--------+
| 1.2.22 |
+--------+
1 row in set (0.000 sec)

it's running on a debian system:

:~$ uname -amrs
Linux debian 5.17.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 5.17.6-1 (2022-05-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Cacti server can poll devices but they have Down status anyway for some reason. And I see following permanently continuous logs such as:

2022-11-21 23:00:03 - ERROR PHP NOTICE: fputs(): Write of 53 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe in file: /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php on line: 189
2022-11-21 23:00:03 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR NOTICE Backtrace: (/script_server.php[189]:fputs(), CactiErrorHandler())
2022-11-21 23:00:05 - ERROR PHP NOTICE: fputs(): Write of 53 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe in file: /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php on line: 189
2022-11-21 23:00:05 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR NOTICE Backtrace: (/script_server.php[189]:fputs(), CactiErrorHandler())
2022-11-21 23:05:04 - ERROR PHP NOTICE: fputs(): Write of 53 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe in file: /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php on line: 189
2022-11-21 23:05:04 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR NOTICE Backtrace: (/script_server.php[189]:fputs(), CactiErrorHandler())
2022-11-21 23:05:05 - ERROR PHP NOTICE: fputs(): Write of 53 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe in file: /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php on line: 189
2022-11-21 23:05:05 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR NOTICE Backtrace: (/script_server.php[189]:fputs(), CactiErrorHandler())

Can somebody help me to fix this issue?

P.S. If you need more outputs - just let me know. Thanks!

[TheWitness]

Broken pipe means it crashed. Can you attempt to start the script server by hand? There is a whole section on testing the script server in the documentation. Also, you may be attempting to use a script server script that has a syntax error and causing the script server to fail. You should check the standard error log too.

[alexvelitsky]

Broken pipe means it crashed. Can you attempt to start the script server by hand? There is a whole section on testing the script server in the documentation. Also, you may be attempting to use a script server script that has a syntax error and causing the script server to fail. You should check the standard error log too.

Thanks for your prompt reply! What do you mean with "to start the script server by hand"? I'm not sure how to start/restart cacti server by CLI. Or do you mean to restart apache server?

[alexvelitsky]

That's interesting, but those log messages stopped by itself:

2022-11-22 14:55:05 - ERROR PHP NOTICE: fputs(): Write of 53 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe in file: /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php on line: 189
2022-11-22 14:55:05 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR NOTICE Backtrace: (/script_server.php[189]:fputs(), CactiErrorHandler())
2022-11-22 16:35:03 - ERROR PHP NOTICE: fputs(): Write of 53 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe in file: /usr/share/cacti/site/script_server.php on line: 189
2022-11-22 16:35:03 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR NOTICE Backtrace: (/script_server.php[189]:fputs(), CactiErrorHandler())
2022-11-22 19:20:17 - SYSTEM THOLD STATS: Time:1.1892 Tholds:2 TotalDevices:4 DownDevices:0 NewDownDevices:0

:~$ date
Wed Nov 23 02:17:14 AM MSK 2022

[TheWitness]

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