Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help
On Sunday October 23 2005 08:43, Todd Troxell wrote: On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:34:19PM -0400, Todd Troxell wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:10:57PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Thursday 06 Oct 2005 02:13, Todd Troxell wrote: How does this make it clear that adduser is not the culprit? If adduser was to be the culprit, it should have broken the installation of logcheck (the stable version) also. Obviously there is some difference between the installation if it now works. Can you still reproduce the breakage? I can still reproduce it with the versions present in testing and unstable branch. I needed logcheck badly and the one in sarge works fine so I used that. So if the version in sarge works and the versions in testing and unstable don't work, it makes it clear that there's some change in the pre/post installation script of logcheck which is breaking, not adduser because the same adduser works with logcheck from stable. Ok, it looks like the adduser invocation changed underneath our feet. Can you please remove the logcheck user and then compare the output of these two commands: adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group --home /var/lib/logcheck logcheck adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group logcheck Pushing this change for today's release. Please re-open this bug if you still have the problem. Cheers, Apologies for not being able to reply you in time. Since my last post, I had put my logcheck (the stable version) packages on hold. I upgraded them today to version 1.2.41 and they look to be working fine. Maybe you can mark the bug as done. Will bug you again if I find something abnormal. :-) Thanks for all your help. Regards, rrs -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. Necessity is the mother of invention. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. Necessity is the mother of invention. pgp2q4oC0TFsH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:34:19PM -0400, Todd Troxell wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:10:57PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Thursday 06 Oct 2005 02:13, Todd Troxell wrote: How does this make it clear that adduser is not the culprit? If adduser was to be the culprit, it should have broken the installation of logcheck (the stable version) also. Obviously there is some difference between the installation if it now works. Can you still reproduce the breakage? I can still reproduce it with the versions present in testing and unstable branch. I needed logcheck badly and the one in sarge works fine so I used that. So if the version in sarge works and the versions in testing and unstable don't work, it makes it clear that there's some change in the pre/post installation script of logcheck which is breaking, not adduser because the same adduser works with logcheck from stable. Ok, it looks like the adduser invocation changed underneath our feet. Can you please remove the logcheck user and then compare the output of these two commands: adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group --home /var/lib/logcheck logcheck adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group logcheck Pushing this change for today's release. Please re-open this bug if you still have the problem. Cheers, -- Todd Troxell http://rapidpacket.com/~xtat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:10:57PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Thursday 06 Oct 2005 02:13, Todd Troxell wrote: How does this make it clear that adduser is not the culprit? If adduser was to be the culprit, it should have broken the installation of logcheck (the stable version) also. Obviously there is some difference between the installation if it now works. Can you still reproduce the breakage? I can still reproduce it with the versions present in testing and unstable branch. I needed logcheck badly and the one in sarge works fine so I used that. So if the version in sarge works and the versions in testing and unstable don't work, it makes it clear that there's some change in the pre/post installation script of logcheck which is breaking, not adduser because the same adduser works with logcheck from stable. Ok, it looks like the adduser invocation changed underneath our feet. Can you please remove the logcheck user and then compare the output of these two commands: adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group --home /var/lib/logcheck logcheck adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home --group logcheck Thanks, -- Todd Troxell http://rapidpacket.com/~xtat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help
On Thursday 06 Oct 2005 02:13, Todd Troxell wrote: How does this make it clear that adduser is not the culprit? If adduser was to be the culprit, it should have broken the installation of logcheck (the stable version) also. Obviously there is some difference between the installation if it now works. Can you still reproduce the breakage? I can still reproduce it with the versions present in testing and unstable branch. I needed logcheck badly and the one in sarge works fine so I used that. So if the version in sarge works and the versions in testing and unstable don't work, it makes it clear that there's some change in the pre/post installation script of logcheck which is breaking, not adduser because the same adduser works with logcheck from stable. Regards, rrs -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. Necessity is the mother of invention. pgpeaCfkxVZ04.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:26:06PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Hi Max and Todd, Thought of giving some more information to this dead bug report which still hasn't been reproduced on your machines. This now is a valid bug because today after installing on the same laptop with the same environment (no changes at all), the stable release of logcheck (version 1.2.39), the installation went fine. So it should be clear now that adduser is not the culprit. I still think the postinst script is where we should hunt for the bug. How does this make it clear that adduser is not the culprit? Obviously there is some difference between the installation if it now works. Can you still reproduce the breakage? -- Todd Troxell http://rapidpacket.com/~xtat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help
On Thursday 22 Sep 2005 02:33, maximilian attems wrote: i guess you interrupt the postrm or similar to get into similar troubles. unable to reproduce with normal purge and reinstall cycles. a new install seemed to have cured the problems of the bug reporters. as it appears only when interrupting the postinstall closing this strange bug. After you mentioned it being fixed, I tried installing the package again but got the same problem. I wonder on what grounds you are closing this bug. Here's what I've found again: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # apt-get install logcheck Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: logcheck-database logtail Suggested packages: syslog-summary The following NEW packages will be installed: logcheck logcheck-database logtail 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 334 not upgraded. Need to get 145kB of archives. After unpacking 1020kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logtail 1.2.41 [29.8kB] Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logcheck-database 1.2.41 [67.5kB] Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logcheck 1.2.41 [47.9kB] Fetched 145kB in 19s (7620B/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package logtail. (Reading database ... 237487 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking logtail (from .../logtail_1.2.41_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package logcheck-database. Unpacking logcheck-database (from .../logcheck-database_1.2.41_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package logcheck. Unpacking logcheck (from .../logcheck_1.2.41_all.deb) ... Setting up logtail (1.2.41) ... Setting up logcheck-database (1.2.41) ... Setting up logcheck (1.2.41) ... adduser: The user `logcheck' does not exist. chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user And here's the entries in syslog logged. Sep 22 22:37:30 laptop useradd[19560]: new user: name=logcheck, uid=120, gid=118, home=/var/lib/logcheck, shell=/bin/false Sep 22 22:37:30 laptop chage[19561]: changed password expiry for logcheck HTH, rrs -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. Necessity is the mother of invention. pgp4pUaaeQE07.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help
On Wednesday 07 Sep 2005 09:04, Todd Troxell wrote: I have tested the following scenarios and have been unable to reproduce this. -fresh install on unstable -dist-upgrade from stable version -dist-upgrade from woody version It will be helpful to know if your adduser is functioning correctly. Please don't top post. This is what my adduser program's description says: Description: Add and remove users and groups Are there other adduesr program also ? There messages might help now. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # apt-get remove --purge logcheck logcheck-database logtail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: logcheck* logcheck-database* logtail* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 294 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1020kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 241152 files and directories currently installed.) Removing logcheck ... Purging configuration files for logcheck ... Removing logcheck-database ... Purging configuration files for logcheck-database ... Removing logtail ... This is what syslog logged at the same time. Sep 7 14:07:35 laptop userdel[28158]: delete user `logcheck' Sep 7 14:07:35 laptop userdel[28158]: removed group `logcheck' owned by `logcheck' Sep 7 14:07:35 laptop userdel[28168]: delete user `logcheck' Sep 7 14:07:35 laptop userdel[28168]: removed group `logcheck' owned by `logcheck' Now I do the installation again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # apt-get install logcheck Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: logcheck-database logtail Suggested packages: syslog-summary The following NEW packages will be installed: logcheck logcheck-database logtail 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 294 not upgraded. Need to get 145kB of archives. After unpacking 1020kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logtail 1.2.41 [29.8kB] Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logcheck-database 1.2.41 [67.5kB] Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main logcheck 1.2.41 [47.9kB] Fetched 145kB in 22s (6529B/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package logtail. (Reading database ... 240988 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking logtail (from .../logtail_1.2.41_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package logcheck-database. Unpacking logcheck-database (from .../logcheck-database_1.2.41_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package logcheck. Unpacking logcheck (from .../logcheck_1.2.41_all.deb) ... Setting up logtail (1.2.41) ... Setting up logcheck-database (1.2.41) ... Setting up logcheck (1.2.41) ... useradd: unknown group logcheck adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/logcheck -g logcheck -s /bin/false -u 118 logcheck' returned error code 6. Aborting. Cleaning up. Removing user `logcheck'. userdel: user logcheck does not exist Removing group `logcheck'. groupdel: group logcheck does not exist adduser: The user `logcheck' does not exist. chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user chgrp: invalid group name `logcheck' chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user And this is the syslog entry at this time. Sep 7 14:14:36 laptop groupadd[28457]: new group: name=logcheck, gid=118 Maybe all this can help you guys rrs -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. Necessity is the mother of invention. pgpzKoYXJ3db6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:18:27PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Wednesday 07 Sep 2005 09:04, Todd Troxell wrote: I have tested the following scenarios and have been unable to reproduce this. -fresh install on unstable -dist-upgrade from stable version -dist-upgrade from woody version It will be helpful to know if your adduser is functioning correctly. Are there other adduesr program also ? There is adduser-ng, but we call adduser specifically. I am puzzled as to why the identical command would work from a shell but not in our postinst. I have tried again on unstable, and I am still unable to reproduce. -- [ Todd J. Troxell ,''`. Student, Debian GNU/Linux Developer, SysAdmin, Geek : :' : http://debian.org || http://rapidpacket.com/~xtat`. `' `- ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:21:23AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Error 3: This error was during installation Setting up logcheck (1.2.41) ... useradd: unknown group logcheck adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/logcheck -g logcheck -s /bin/false -u 118 logcheck' returned error code 6. Aborting. Hmm. The 6 returned is from useradd(8) and it indicates: #define E_NOTFOUND 6 /* specified group doesn't exist */ I'm still not sure what's going on. Maybe something changed in a new version of adduser? -- [ Todd J. Troxell ,''`. Student, Debian GNU/Linux Developer, SysAdmin, Geek : :' : http://debian.org || http://rapidpacket.com/~xtat`. `' `- ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#312393: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#312393: logcheck: Some more information that might help
I have tested the following scenarios and have been unable to reproduce this. -fresh install on unstable -dist-upgrade from stable version -dist-upgrade from woody version It will be helpful to know if your adduser is functioning correctly. On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:21:23AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.41 Followup-For: Bug #312393 Error 1: This was sent as an email when logcheck failed. Failed to get lockfile: /var/lock/logcheck/logcheck.lock Check temporary directory: declare -x HISTSIZE=1000 declare -x HOME=/root declare -x HZ=100 declare -x LANG=en_US declare -x LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s declare -x LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s declare -x LOGNAME=logcheck declare -x LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.ogg=01;35:*.mp3=01;35:*.wav=01;35: declare -x LS_OPTIONS=--color=auto -F declare -x MAIL=/var/mail/root declare -x OLDPWD declare -x PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin declare -x PWD=/root declare -x SHELL=/bin/bash declare -x SHLVL=2 declare -x SUDO_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/logcheck declare -x SUDO_GID=0 declare -x SUDO_UID=0 declare -x SUDO_USER=root declare -x TERM=xterm declare -x USER=logcheck Error 2: This was what I got when it was run from cron rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. Error 3: This error was during installation Setting up logcheck (1.2.41) ... useradd: unknown group logcheck adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/logcheck -g logcheck -s /bin/false -u 118 logcheck' returned error code 6. Aborting. Cleaning up. Removing user `logcheck'. userdel: user logcheck does not exist Removing group `logcheck'. groupdel: group logcheck does not exist adduser: The user `logcheck' does not exist. chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user chgrp: invalid group name `logcheck' chown: `logcheck:logcheck': invalid user -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-bsplash-skas3-v8.2 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages logcheck depends on: ii adduser 3.67Add and remove users and groups ii cron 3.0pl1-91 management of regular background p ii debconf [debconf 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.14.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii grep 2.5.1.ds1-5 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep ii lockfile-progs 0.1.10 Programs for locking and unlocking ii logcheck-databas 1.2.41 database of system log rules for t ii logtail 1.2.41 Print log file lines that have not ii mailx1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent ii postfix [mail-tr 2.2.4-1 A high-performance mail transport ii sysklogd [system 1.4.1-17System Logging Daemon logcheck recommends no packages. -- debconf information: logcheck/changes: * logcheck/install-note: ___ Logcheck-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/logcheck-devel -- [ Todd J. Troxell ,''`. Student, Debian GNU/Linux Developer, SysAdmin, Geek : :' : http://debian.org || http://rapidpacket.com/~xtat`. `' `- ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
