Package: cacti
Version: 0.8.6g-3
Severity: grave
Justification: n
After the last upgrade of Cacti, the /etc/cacti/debian.php was replaced
with default/null values. This caused polling to stop and data for five
days was lost for my install.
During the upgrade, I recall being prompted about the new
dbconfig-common option. I selected n for No. However, the file was
cleared, rendering Cacti disfunctional. I didn't notice until today
that polling had stopped. I noticed when I saw an error message while
trying to review stats for the week.
I was able to reproduce the problem, after populating the proper values
into the /etc/cacti/debian.php file, I ran dpkg-reconfigure cacti again,
and selected no to the question;
Configure database for cacti with dbconfig-common? n
And, again, it overwrote the file and cleared values.
Expected result: Don't touch the config files if user says NO.
I didn't see anything obvious in /usr/share/doc/cacti about this issue.
Furthermore, the replacement of this vital config file was very silent.
That's not very nice.
Hopefully I didn't do anything wrong myself. Ask any questions needed
to clarify.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.32-2005120801
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages cacti depends on:
ii apache1.3.34-1 versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii dbconfig-common 1.8.9 common framework for packaging dat
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.62 Debian configuration management sy
ii libphp-adodb 4.64-4 The 'adodb' database abstraction l
ii logrotate 3.7.1-2Log rotation utility
ii mysql-client-4.1 [virtual-mys 4.1.15-1 mysql database client binaries
ii php4 4:4.4.0-4 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii php4-cli 4:4.4.0-4 command-line interpreter for the p
ii php4-mysql4:4.4.0-4 MySQL module for php4
ii php4-snmp 4:4.4.0-4 SNMP module for php4
ii rrdtool 1.2.11-0.4 Time-series data storage and displ
ii snmp 5.2.1.2-4 NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen
ii ucf 2.004 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages cacti recommends:
pn iputils-ping none (no description available)
ii mysql-server 4.1.15-1 mysql database server (transitiona
ii mysql-server-4.1 [mysql-serve 4.1.15-1 mysql database server binaries
-- debconf information:
* cacti/username: cacti
cacti/db/app-user:
cacti/mysql/admin-user: root
* cacti/mysql_server: localhost
* cacti/webserver: Apache
cacti/mysql/method: unix socket
cacti/remote/host:
cacti/upgrade-error: abort
cacti/import-oldsettings:
cacti/dbconfig-upgrade: true
cacti/remote/newhost:
cacti/purge: false
cacti/upgrade_warning:
cacti/database-type: mysql
* cacti/database: cacti
cacti/remove-error: abort
cacti/db/dbname:
cacti/mismatch:
cacti/upgrade-backup: true
cacti/install-error: abort
cacti/root_mysql: root
cacti/passwords-do-not-match:
* cacti/no_automagic:
cacti/dbconfig-remove: true
* cacti/dbconfig-install: false
cacti/purge_db: true
cacti/performing_upgrade: true
cacti/remote/port:
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