Package: fail2ban
Version: 1.1.0-4
Severity: important
I started getting this recently in my logs with fail2ban
refusing to start entirely:
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2024-07-17 02:33:11,197 fail2ban.server [469516]: INFO
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2024-07-17 02:33:11,197 fail2ban.server [469516]: INFO Starting
Fail2ban v1.1.0
2024-07-17 02:33:11,197 fail2ban.observer [469516]: INFO Observer
start...
2024-07-17 02:33:11,201 fail2ban.database [469516]: INFO Connected to
fail2ban persistent database '/var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3'
2024-07-17 02:33:11,201 fail2ban.jail [469516]: INFO Creating new
jail 'sshd'
2024-07-17 02:33:11,202 fail2ban.jail [469516]: ERROR Backend
'systemd' failed to initialize due to No module named 'distutils'
2024-07-17 02:33:11,202 fail2ban.jail [469516]: ERROR Failed to
initialize any backend for Jail 'sshd'
2024-07-17 02:33:11,202 fail2ban.transmitter [469516]: ERROR Command
['server-stream', [['set', 'syslogsocket', 'auto'],<long line snipped>
2024-07-17 02:33:11,202 fail2ban [469516]: ERROR NOK: ("Failed
to initialize any backend for Jail 'sshd'",)
2024-07-17 02:33:11,202 fail2ban.server [469516]: INFO Shutdown in
progress...
2024-07-17 02:33:11,202 fail2ban.observer [469516]: INFO Observer stop
... try to end queue 5 seconds
2024-07-17 02:33:11,222 fail2ban.observer [469516]: INFO Observer
stopped, 0 events remaining.
2024-07-17 02:33:11,262 fail2ban.server [469516]: INFO Stopping all
jails
2024-07-17 02:33:11,263 fail2ban.database [469516]: INFO Connection to
database closed.
2024-07-17 02:33:11,463 fail2ban.server [469516]: INFO Exiting
Fail2ban
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Thankfully, I happened to run across this report from a Fedora
user:
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https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/3787
with the exact same problem where someone mentions installing
python3-setuptools fixes the issue. This works for Debian also.
I'm not sure how long this situation is going to persist
since it sounds like from the aforementioned bug report that this
might not be necessary in the near future. But for now, this
package might need an additional dependency defined on
python3-setuptools where it may not otherwise be installed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.8.12-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages fail2ban depends on:
ii python3 3.12.3-1
ii python3-systemd 235-1+b4
Versions of packages fail2ban recommends:
ii nftables 1.0.9-2
ii python3-pyinotify 0.9.6-3
ii whois 5.5.23
Versions of packages fail2ban suggests:
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1
pn monit <none>
ii rsyslog [system-log-daemon] 8.2406.0-1
ii sqlite3 3.46.0-1
-- no debconf information
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Mark Nipper
