Public bug reported:
I'm sorry if this is completely in the wrong place because it is not
really a bug but more an annoyance:
cmus recommends libroar1, which in turn depends on dnet-common and libdnet. If
you just apt-get install cmus you end up with a more or less configured DECnet
on your machine. This has some side effects, most notably the changing of the
MAC-address of your Ethernet interfaces, which really is not what you want, I
guess.
Apart from that I quickly ran into problems as I undocked my laptop (ThinkPad
T61) from the docking station with an integrated Ethernet port. I don't know if
DECnet was responsible for that or if it just was a funny quirk but my machine
locked up completely. After rebooting I discovered that cmus wouldn't launch
(just a blinking cursor forever). strace told me that cmus hung while waiting
for connect() on an AF_DECnet socket.
After that I wasn't even able to start /etc/init.d/decnet without errors, which
I was able to trace down to the /sbin/setether script. The script uses /sbin/ip
to change the MAC-address, which failed with "RTNETLINK: No such device" on
eth0 (the MAC address was already changed to AA:00:00:??:??:??). After that I
stopped looking into the problem and purged cmus and all dependencies.
After a reboot DECnet was gone.
Long story short: Installing cmus and cmus-plugin-ffmpeg with --no-
install-recommends did the trick, WITHOUT installing libroar1 and its
dependencies and funny side effects. So I think the recommends for cmus
should be changed to not include libroar1.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: cmus 2.4.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 28 11:44:56 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: cmus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: cmus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity
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cmus recommends dnet-common and libdnet
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