smartd fails to start after upgrade from F14 to F15

[Mark Eggers]

smartd fails to start on boot after I upgraded from Fedora 14 to Fedora 
15.

Right now I'm using the default /etc/smartd.conf file (which is not 
ideal). This uses the default scanning values, which are:

DEVICESCAN -H -m root -M exec /usr/lib/smartd_actions -n standby,10,q

/usr/lib/smartd_actions does not exist, so obviously if there is a 
problem I won't get notified about it.

A more reasonable set of lines for my system would be:

/dev/sda -H -l selftest -l error -f
/dev/sdb -H -l selftest -l error -f

However, even with the sub-optimal configuration, issuing the following 
command as root starts smartd.

systemctl start smartd.service

The two disks are found as indicated by messages in /var/log/messages.

Jun  7 13:40:20 phoenix smartd[9511]: Monitoring 2 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: smartd 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i386-
redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)#012Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, 
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net#012
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Opened configuration file /etc/
smartd.conf
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf 
was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Device: /dev/sda, type changed from 
'scsi' to 'sat'
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], opened
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], found in 
smartd database.
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], is SMART 
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Device: /dev/sdb, type changed from 
'scsi' to 'sat'
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], opened
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], found in 
smartd database.
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], is SMART 
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jun  7 18:48:59 phoenix smartd[4813]: Monitoring 2 ATA and 0 SCSI devices

>From what I can tell, /lib/systemd/system/smartd.service looks reasonable.

[Unit]
Description=Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon
After=syslog.target

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/smartmontools
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smartd -n $smartd_opts

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance . . . .

/mde/