Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
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Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
I just wanted to chime in with my 2c: It is terrible to intentionally break a configuration on upgrade! When I do a fresh install, then it is common to do work to get the package running (nicely, or at all). I expect some degree of manual intervention. But on upgrade, when there aren't any significant upstream changes (not sure if that's entirely true for pdns squeeze-wheezy, but this change isn't dependent on upstream anyway) I _do_not_ expect to have to touch the configuration. I am always very grateful for Debian providing such great upgrade compatibility. That's why I agree with juha that this is a bad change. It will make many people unhappy when they upgrade pdns. Isn't there a way to conditionally include a conffile? The reference to the debian manual sounded like no though. If that really is the case, I could possibly write a patch for postinst, if there's a change to get it included. ~David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:55:34PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:19:41AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 08:49:13AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:28:30PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind should be shipped in /usr/share/doc/pdns-server and the postinst should copy it into the live location when $1 is configure and there is no $2. Unfortunately, the solution is not _that_ easy since with this solution, pdns.simplebind will not become a dpkg conffile, making tens of lines of fragile code necessary to handle the file in the maintainer scripts. But do you really need the file to be a conffile? You didn't have it *at all* up to its sudden inclusion, and it wasn't a major problem, so how would it not being a conffile suddenly become a problem? Before its addition, PowerDNS did not run after installation and needed manual configuration. It will probably be changed in every installation, so it is adviseable to have it as a conffile. But if you're adding something so bare/fragile/whatever that everyone will probably modify it, what is the purpose of adding conffile handling? If you already know that the file will probably be modified, then you already know that it's not supposed to be a conffile. Please read http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3 [...] a conffile [...] is appropriate only if it is possible to distribute a default version that will work for most installations [...] -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:19:41AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 08:49:13AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:28:30PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind should be shipped in /usr/share/doc/pdns-server and the postinst should copy it into the live location when $1 is configure and there is no $2. Unfortunately, the solution is not _that_ easy since with this solution, pdns.simplebind will not become a dpkg conffile, making tens of lines of fragile code necessary to handle the file in the maintainer scripts. But do you really need the file to be a conffile? You didn't have it *at all* up to its sudden inclusion, and it wasn't a major problem, so how would it not being a conffile suddenly become a problem? Before its addition, PowerDNS did not run after installation and needed manual configuration. It will probably be changed in every installation, so it is adviseable to have it as a conffile. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things.Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 08:49:13AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:28:30PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind should be shipped in /usr/share/doc/pdns-server and the postinst should copy it into the live location when $1 is configure and there is no $2. Unfortunately, the solution is not _that_ easy since with this solution, pdns.simplebind will not become a dpkg conffile, making tens of lines of fragile code necessary to handle the file in the maintainer scripts. But do you really need the file to be a conffile? You didn't have it *at all* up to its sudden inclusion, and it wasn't a major problem, so how would it not being a conffile suddenly become a problem? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:28:30PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind should be shipped in /usr/share/doc/pdns-server and the postinst should copy it into the live location when $1 is configure and there is no $2. Unfortunately, the solution is not _that_ easy since with this solution, pdns.simplebind will not become a dpkg conffile, making tens of lines of fragile code necessary to handle the file in the maintainer scripts. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things.Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
Hi, Please don't risk breaking working systems. /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind should be shipped in /usr/share/doc/pdns-server and the postinst should copy it into the live location when $1 is configure and there is no $2. The postinst script in this package already has other checks over $2. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 08:29:55AM +0300, Juha Heinanen wrote: Marc Haber writes: Does your package contain a NEWS.Debian file in /usr/share/doc/pdns? You should read it. ok, i read it, but i do not like at all the decision to include bind backend in every debian pdns-server installation. perhaps it could be done in fresh powerdns installation, but NOT in case of upgrade. it is bad and user unfriendly idea to break working setups during upgrade. Please send a working and tested patch. This is decidedly non-trivial. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things.Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
Package: pdns-server Version: 3.1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After I did yesterday 'apt-get dist-upgrade' of my debian wheezy host, pdns server started to repeatedly write to syslog these messages: Jul 11 07:28:15 siika pdns[3366]: Our pdns instance exited with code 1 Jul 11 07:28:15 siika pdns[3366]: Respawning Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Guardian is launching an instance Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom' Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: This is a guarded instance of pdns Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host' Before this dist-upgrade pdns had worked fine in my wheezy host. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pdns-server depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.44 ii libboost-program-options1.49.0 1.49.0-3.1 ii libboost-serialization1.49.01.49.0-3.1 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libcrypto++95.6.1-6 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-2 ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.5-2 ii libpolarssl01.1.4-1 ii libsqlite3-03.7.13-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-2 ii ucf 3.0025+nmu3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 pdns-server recommends no packages. Versions of packages pdns-server suggests: ii pdns-backend-mysql [pdns-backend] 3.1-4 ii pdns-recursor 3.3-3 -- Configuration Files: /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind' -- debconf information: * pdns-server/localaddress: 0.0.0.0 * pdns-server/allowrecursion: 127.0.0.1 * pdns-server/autostart: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
Hello, On Jul 11, 2012, at 19:13 , Juha Heinanen wrote: After I did yesterday 'apt-get dist-upgrade' of my debian wheezy host, pdns server started to repeatedly write to syslog these messages: Jul 11 07:28:15 siika pdns[3366]: Our pdns instance exited with code 1 Jul 11 07:28:15 siika pdns[3366]: Respawning Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Guardian is launching an instance Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom' Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: This is a guarded instance of pdns Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host' Before this dist-upgrade pdns had worked fine in my wheezy host. This happens when you have multiple launch= lines (possibly spread over different config files). Perhaps the dist-upgrade added a bind config file in /etc/powerdns/pdns.d? Kind regards, -- Peter van Dijk Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
Peter van Dijk writes: This happens when you have multiple launch= lines (possibly spread over different config files). Perhaps the dist-upgrade added a bind config file in /etc/powerdns/pdns.d? Peter, Thanks for your response. Based on date, looks like this is new file in /etc/powerdns/pdns.d: 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 Jun 29 00:00 pdns.simplebind The error messages disappeared after I deleted this file. Does deleting it break something else? -- Juha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:13:52PM +0300, Juha Heinanen wrote: After I did yesterday 'apt-get dist-upgrade' of my debian wheezy host, pdns server started to repeatedly write to syslog these messages: Does your package contain a NEWS.Debian file in /usr/share/doc/pdns? You should read it. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things.Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'
Marc Haber writes: Does your package contain a NEWS.Debian file in /usr/share/doc/pdns? You should read it. ok, i read it, but i do not like at all the decision to include bind backend in every debian pdns-server installation. perhaps it could be done in fresh powerdns installation, but NOT in case of upgrade. it is bad and user unfriendly idea to break working setups during upgrade. -- juha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
