Package: smokeping Version: 2.7.3-1 Severity: serious Hi,
sorry for the late report, but smokeping failed to configure (probably after the recent upgrade) for a few days for me now: # dpkg --configure -a Setting up smokeping (2.7.3-1) ... apache2_invoke: Enable module cgi [ ok ] Restarting Apache httpd web server: apache2 apache2_invoke smokeping: already enabled [ ok ] Reloading Apache httpd web server: apache2. [....] Shutting down latency logger daemon: smokepingstart-stop-daemon: matching only on non-root pidfile /var/run/smokeping/smokeping.pid is insecure failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript smokeping, action "restart" failed. dpkg: error processing package smokeping (--configure): installed smokeping package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: smokeping # ls -l /var/run/smokeping/smokeping.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 smokeping smokeping 5 Jan 21 17:50 /var/run/smokeping/smokeping.pid This seems to happen since dpkg 1.19.3. According changelog entry: * start-stop-daemon: Check whether standalone --pidfile use is secure. Prompted by Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com>. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: armhf (armv7l) Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-trunk-rpi2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages smokeping depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii debianutils 4.8.6.1 ii fping 4.1-1 ii libcgi-fast-perl 1:2.13-1 ii libconfig-grammar-perl 1.12-2 ii libdigest-hmac-perl 1.03+dfsg-2 ii libjs-cropper 1.2.2-1 ii libjs-prototype 1.7.1-3 ii libjs-scriptaculous 1.9.0-2 ii librrds-perl 1.7.1-1 ii libsnmp-session-perl 1.14~git20130523.186a005-4 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libwww-perl 6.36-1 ii lsb-base 10.2018112800 ii perl 5.28.1-4 ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.3.2-1+b1 ii ucf 3.0038+nmu1 Versions of packages smokeping recommends: ii apache2 [httpd-cgi] 2.4.38-2 ii bind-dnsutils [dnsutils] 1:9.13.2-1~exp0 ii echoping 6.0.2-10 ii libsocket6-perl 0.29-1+b1 Versions of packages smokeping suggests: ii curl 7.64.0-1 pn libauthen-radius-perl <none> ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 2.060-3 ii libnet-dns-perl 1.19-1 pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> ii libnet-telnet-perl 3.04-1 ii openssh-client 1:7.9p1-6 ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.3.2-1+b1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/smokeping/basepage.html changed: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-15"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" content="no-cache"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="<##step##>"> <TITLE>SmokePing Latency Page for <##title##></TITLE> <STYLE type="text/css"> <!-- .menubar, .menubar a { color: white; text-decoration: none; } .menubar { background: #4c4c4c; } .menu, .menuitem, .menuopen, .menuactive { font-size: 10px; font-family: sans-serif; } .menuactive { background: white; } a.menulink { color: white; } a.menulinkactive { color: #1280d7; } a.menulinkactive:hover { color: #000000; } a.menulink:hover { color: #e0e0ff; } --> </STYLE> <script src="/smokeping/prototype/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/smokeping/scriptaculous/scriptaculous.js?load=builder,effects,dragdrop" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/smokeping/cropper/cropper.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/smokeping/smokeping-zoom.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="white"> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <TR> <TD class="menubar" align="left" width="130" valign="top"> <P></P> <P><B>SmokePing Targets:</B> </P> <P><##menu##></P> <br/> </td> <TD rowspan="2"></TD> <TD rowspan="2" valign="top"> <H1><##title##></H1> <P><##remark##></P> <P><##overview##></P> <P><##body##></P> </TD> </TR> <tr> <td class="menubar" valign="bottom" width="130"> <p><small>Maintained by <br/><A href="mailto:<##contact##>"><##owner##></A></small></p> <p><small>Running on <##smokeping##> by <##author##></small></p> <P><##smokelogo##></P> <P></P> <P><##rrdlogo##></P> </TD> </tr> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML> /etc/smokeping/config.d/Probes changed: *** Probes *** + FPing binary = /usr/bin/fping + FPing6 binary = /usr/bin/fping /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets changed: [removed for privacy reasons] /etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets' -- no debconf information