Package: munin-node
Version: 1.2.6-7
Severity: important
In previous months, munin-node was working so this might just be a symptom of
another problem introduced when I started to pull in some testing packages on
this stable system. When I saw the error from my dpkg --purge attempts, I
felt compelled to send this report because an unclean purge could interfere
with the next install.
About a month ago, the munin data from this system stopped appearing on the
graphs. I tried my typical apt-get install --reinstall munin-node response.
For some reason, no error messages show up during a --reinstall. But if I
use dpkg --purge munin-node to clear the slate, on the next install I always
get the following error messages:
Setting up munin (1.2.6-7) ...
Setting up munin-node (1.2.6-7) ...
Initializing plugins..# There were some errors:
# Got junk from postgres_space_: DBI connect('','',...) failed: FATAL: Ident
authentication
failed for user nobody at /usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_space_ line 62
# Got junk from postgres_queries_: DBI connect('','',...) failed: FATAL: Ident
authentication failed for user nobody at
/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_queries_ line
98
# Got junk from postgres_block_read_: DBI connect('','',...) failed: FATAL:
Ident
authentication failed for user nobody at
/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_block_read_
line 96
# Got junk from postgres_commits_: Use of uninitialized value $maybe_dbname in
string eq at
/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_commits_ line 111.
# Got junk from postgres_commits_: DBI connect('','',...) failed: FATAL: Ident
authentication failed for user nobody at
/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_commits_ line
130
done.
Starting Munin-Node: done.
It puzzles me why a --reinstall does not generate these error messages. An
example of the --reinstall follows below:
Stopping Munin-Node: done.
Unpacking replacement munin-node ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up munin (1.2.6-7) ...
Setting up munin-node (1.2.6-7) ...
Initializing new plugins..done.
Starting Munin-Node: done.
The errors on dpkg --purge are less consistent. The initial attempts complained
about directories not being deleted and I manually deleted them. Since I
started
to type this message and have been cutting and pasting from another window, I am
unable to reproduce the errors I previously saw. I was not rigorous in using a
script to return to the same pristine condition on each attempt. It is possible
that the errors were related to some intermediate state where only some of the
directories were manually deleted. I remember the error message talking about
post-removal issues but I cannot reproduce it to cut and paste into this email.
I wish I could be more helpful in this report, but perhaps it is sufficient to
start exploring why apt-get install --reinstall munin-node fails to generate
the error messages I find after the dpkg --purge munin-node. If reportbug
does not supply enough information, I will gladly provide any more that you
request. I should also let you know that I was previously installing and
purging all 3 packages (munin, munin-node, and munin-plugins-extra) with the
same results although this report was generated with 2 packages.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages munin-node depends on:
ii adduser 3.110add and remove users and groups
ii gawk1:3.1.5.dfsg-4.1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii libnet-server-perl 0.97-1 An extensible, general perl server
ii lsb-base3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii perl5.10.0-16Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii procps 1:3.2.7-8/proc file system utilities
Versions of packages munin-node recommends:
ii libnet-snmp-perl 5.2.0-1Script SNMP connections
Versions of packages munin-node suggests:
ii ethtool 6+20080227-1 display or change ethernet card se
ii libdbd-pg-perl 2.8.7-1 Perl DBI driver for the PostgreSQL
ii liblwp-useragent-determined 1.03-1 a LWP useragent that retries error
ii libnet-irc-perl 0.75-8 IRC (Internet Relay Chat) interfac
ii libwww-perl 5.813-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii lm-sensors 1:3.0.2-1+b2 utilities to read temperature/volt
ii munin 1.2.6-7 network-wide graphing framework (g
pn munin-plugins-extra none (no description available)
ii mysql-client5.0.51a-15 MySQL database client (metapackage
ii mysql-client-5.0 [mysql-cli 5.0.51a-15 MySQL database client binaries
ii python
