Bug#586759: fails to install
tags 586759 moreinfo thanks Hi Holger, On tiisdei 22 Juny 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: On Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: Why? It's not configured, it won't work, why should it pretend the installation was successful? because you want the package in stable? having packages installable is a release goal, else packages are not suited for a stable release. A fix has been committed for this bug but I'm not convinced that this is the right one. I don't think your reasoning quoted above is technically sound. We do not fix bugs 'because a release goal says so' but because we think the change is a technically better situation. In my opinion the current situation is: 1) Package needs SQL database to function; 2) Package asks for SQL info in configuration stage; 3) Reporter does not supply apt SQL info; 4) Package is unable to contact database and cannot complete setup; 5) Package fails installation. That seems correct to me, because the package is not useful without a configured database, and retrying configuring the package with correct database information would solve that problem. If we would instead just claim that installation is successful, where it in fact is not, we end up with a 'successfully' installed package that doesn't work. That doesn't seem like an improvement to me. Can you please clarify why you think we shouldn't abort installation when incorrect database info is provided? Cheers, Thijs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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Bug#586759: fails to install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 27/06/2010 07:00, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : Hi Holger, Hi Holger, Thijs, On tiisdei 22 Juny 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: On Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: Why? It's not configured, it won't work, why should it pretend the installation was successful? because you want the package in stable? having packages installable is a release goal, else packages are not suited for a stable release. A fix has been committed for this bug but I'm not convinced that this is the right one. I don't think your reasoning quoted above is technically sound. We do not fix bugs 'because a release goal says so' but because we think the change is a technically better situation. In my opinion the current situation is: 1) Package needs SQL database to function; 2) Package asks for SQL info in configuration stage; 3) Reporter does not supply apt SQL info; 4) Package is unable to contact database and cannot complete setup; 5) Package fails installation. That seems correct to me, because the package is not useful without a configured database, and retrying configuring the package with correct database information would solve that problem. If we would instead just claim that installation is successful, where it in fact is not, we end up with a 'successfully' installed package that doesn't work. That doesn't seem like an improvement to me. May I add a comment on this one: I usually don't let dbconfig-common configure my databases, at least when I install phpbb3. I prefer to configure each database in order to use the multiboard trick, and the first board created in the postint script doesn't fit my needs, so I guess that Jean-Marc fix for this one seems fine: let the package be installed, and let the user read the README.* files in order to configure phpbb3 the way that fits her needs. Cheers David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwnOtUACgkQ18/WetbTC/oNEwCggqg2LjEXgPm57DGgkpVogdMj Rz0AnAhA+uYJwvYBsoVQu6XycBrTzjAX =vCDC -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#586759: fails to install
Technically, the failure is trigged by the set -e of the maintainer script, since dbc_go fails. This is by no means a failure of the phpbb3 package, only a consequence of the failure of dbconfig-common. As far as debconf is concerned, people use db_go || true -- I have seen no such call for dbc_go, however s9y uses an if-construct to achieve the same goal, I believe. However, in this case, I wonder why dbconfig-common failed -- there should be a question if it is supposed to be used at all for that package, which probably is what the bug reporter intended to (not) do, and if properly answered with No it would not have been used and therefore not have produced any errors -- not sure how piuparts handles the part of configuring the package for test. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#586759: fails to install
On snein 27 Juny 2010, J.M.Roth wrote: Technically, the failure is trigged by the set -e of the maintainer script, since dbc_go fails. This is by no means a failure of the phpbb3 package, only a consequence of the failure of dbconfig-common. As far as debconf is concerned, people use db_go || true -- I have seen no such call for dbc_go, however s9y uses an if-construct to achieve the same goal, I believe. However, in this case, I wonder why dbconfig-common failed -- there should be a question if it is supposed to be used at all for that package, which probably is what the bug reporter intended to (not) do, and if properly answered with No it would not have been used and therefore not have produced any errors -- not sure how piuparts handles the part of configuring the package for test. Actually, it seems that the issue is that Holger is using a non-interactive install, and that in such a case (in my opinion) dbconfig-common should default to No on the question on whether to use dbconfig-common. This is another case of #542381 if you ask me. However, that bug is claimed to be fixed in the version that Holger used. More investigation needed. Thijs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#586759: fails to install
Package: phpbb3 Version: 3.0.7-PL1-2 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): Setting up phpbb3 (3.0.7-PL1-2) ... dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/phpbb3.conf Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/phpbb3.conf with new version Creating config file /etc/phpbb3/database.inc.php with new version ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2). unable to connect to mysql server. error encountered creating user: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) dbconfig-common: phpbb3 configure: noninteractive fail. dbconfig-common: phpbb3 configure: ignoring errors from here forwards populating database via sql... done. dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password Setting admin password ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) dpkg: error processing phpbb3 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: phpbb3 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) cheers, Holger Start: 2010-06-20 04:02:42 UTC Package: phpbb3 Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 12732 Maintainer: Jeroen van Wolffelaar jer...@wolffelaar.nl Architecture: all Version: 3.0.7-PL1-2 Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 | php5-cgi | php5, php5-gd, php5-mysql | php5-pgsql | php5-sqlite | php5-odbc | php5-sybase, apache2 | httpd, mysql-client | postgresql-client | sqlite, dbconfig-common, ucf, php5-cli, debconf (= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Recommends: exim4 | mail-transport-agent, php5-imagick Suggests: phpbb3-l10n, mysql-server | postgresql Filename: pool/main/p/phpbb3/phpbb3_3.0.7-PL1-2_all.deb Size: 2299446 MD5sum: 368286e6c8de4fadf8557bdedba51e9e SHA1: f94b98f773c98cc22fae2a20d3a6164480d35c19 SHA256: b699e35260a325b2097697e91d320dc04d2789406a28f1399f4d90ea61abd072 Description: full-featured, skinnable non-threaded web forum phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable bulletin board, with a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. . It supports a choice of database back-ends. Homepage: http://www.phpbb.com Tag: implemented-in::php, interface::web, role::program, scope::application, web::application, web::forum, works-with::db, works-with-format::html Executing: sudo /org/piuparts.debian.org/sbin/piuparts --warn-symlinks --warn-on-others --warn-on-leftovers-after-purge --skip-logrotatefiles-test --scriptsdir /etc/piuparts/scripts/ --tmpdir /org/piuparts.debian.org/tmp -ad squeeze -b squeeze.tar.gz --mirror http://piatti.debian.org/debian/ phpbb3 Guessed: debian 0m0.0s INFO: -- 0m0.0s INFO: To quickly glance what went wrong, scroll down to the bottom of this logfile. 0m0.0s INFO: FAQ available at http://wiki.debian.org/piuparts/FAQ 0m0.0s INFO: -- 0m0.0s INFO: piuparts version 0.39~201005220948 starting up. 0m0.0s INFO: Command line arguments: /org/piuparts.debian.org/sbin/piuparts --warn-symlinks --warn-on-others --warn-on-leftovers-after-purge --skip-logrotatefiles-test --scriptsdir /etc/piuparts/scripts/ --tmpdir /org/piuparts.debian.org/tmp -ad squeeze -b squeeze.tar.gz --mirror http://piatti.debian.org/debian/ phpbb3 0m0.0s INFO: Running on: Linux piatti 2.6.32.14-dsa-amd64 #1 SMP Thu May 27 15:09:09 CEST 2010 x86_64 0m0.0s DEBUG: Created temporary directory /org/piuparts.debian.org/tmp/tmphbzfVV 0m0.0s DEBUG: Unpacking squeeze.tar.gz into /org/piuparts.debian.org/tmp/tmphbzfVV 0m0.0s DEBUG: Starting command: ['tar', '-C', '/org/piuparts.debian.org/tmp/tmphbzfVV', '-zxf', 'squeeze.tar.gz'] 0m1.8s DEBUG: Command ok: ['tar', '-C', '/org/piuparts.debian.org/tmp/tmphbzfVV', '-zxf', 'squeeze.tar.gz'] 0m1.8s DEBUG: Created policy-rc.d and chmodded it. 0m1.8s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/org/piuparts.debian.org/tmp/tmphbzfVV', 'apt-get', 'update'] 0m3.8s DUMP: Get:1 http://piatti.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [835B] Get:2 http://piatti.debian.org squeeze Release [89.5kB] Ign http://piatti.debian.org squeeze/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://piatti.debian.org squeeze/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://piatti.debian.org squeeze/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Get:3 http://piatti.debian.org squeeze/main Packages [8589kB] Get:4 http://piatti.debian.org squeeze/contrib Packages [62.3kB] Get:5 http://piatti.debian.org squeeze/non-free Packages [121kB] Fetched 8863kB in 1s (8562kB/s) Reading package lists... 0m3.8s DEBUG: Command ok: ['chroot',
Bug#586759: fails to install
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:41:55 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Package: phpbb3 Version: 3.0.7-PL1-2 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. It doesn't fail to install, it fails to configure. From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): Setting up phpbb3 (3.0.7-PL1-2) ... dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/phpbb3.conf Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/phpbb3.conf with new version Creating config file /etc/phpbb3/database.inc.php with new version ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2). unable to connect to mysql server. error encountered creating user: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) dbconfig-common: phpbb3 configure: noninteractive fail. dbconfig-common: phpbb3 configure: ignoring errors from here forwards populating database via sql... done. dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password Setting admin password ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) dpkg: error processing phpbb3 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: phpbb3 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I'm not sure how you expect phpbb3 to configure successfully if you don't tell it what sql server to use. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#586759: fails to install
Hi, On Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. It doesn't fail to install, it fails to configure. While technically correct, the end result is the same: the installation fails, because the configure steps fails. I'm not sure how you expect phpbb3 to configure successfully if you don't tell it what sql server to use. It wont. It just shouldnt fail to install. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#586759: fails to install
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:33:10 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. It doesn't fail to install, it fails to configure. While technically correct, the end result is the same: the installation fails, because the configure steps fails. I'm not sure how you expect phpbb3 to configure successfully if you don't tell it what sql server to use. It wont. It just shouldnt fail to install. Why? It's not configured, it won't work, why should it pretend the installation was successful? Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#586759: fails to install
On Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: Why? It's not configured, it won't work, why should it pretend the installation was successful? because you want the package in stable? having packages installable is a release goal, else packages are not suited for a stable release. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
