Public bug reported:
1) Ubuntu version: 16.04.1 (server)
2) Package version: 2.9.7.0-5 (amd64)
3) What I expected to happen: Successful installation. More details below.
4) What I got: Failed installation. More details below.
To summarize, if the interface name isn't ethX, snort will fail installing due
to the fact that eth0 will be in /etc/snort/snort.debian.conf (and it isn't a
valid interface as you can see at the bottom of the logs). The default
interface should be changed in the installation script and default to an
existing interface (eg ip link show | grep -E '^[0-9]*: ' | grep -v LOOPBACK |
awk -F: '{print $2}' | head -n 1 | sed "s/ //g") instead of eth0. From there,
it can figure out the IP range.
Also, make the script not start snort automatically and leave that to the user.
A failure to start snort shouldn't prevent the package from a successful
installation
As a workaround to fix the installation, fix the value in snort.debian.conf
then do an apt-get -f install.
Notes:
- Even pre-answering using debconf-set-selection fails.
- That bug is present since 2008 based on searches (giving lots of results) in
snort bugs.
root@ubuntu:~# DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install snort -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libauthen-sasl-perl libdaq2 libfile-listing-perl libfont-afm-perl
libhtml-form-perl libhtml-format-perl libhtml-tree-perl
libhttp-cookies-perl libhttp-daemon-perl libhttp-negotiate-perl
libio-socket-ssl-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libmailtools-perl
libnet-http-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libwww-perl
libwww-robotrules-perl oinkmaster snort-common snort-common-libraries
snort-rules-default
Suggested packages:
libdigest-hmac-perl libgssapi-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libauthen-ntlm-perl
snort-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libauthen-sasl-perl libdaq2 libfile-listing-perl libfont-afm-perl
libhtml-form-perl libhtml-format-perl libhtml-tree-perl
libhttp-cookies-perl libhttp-daemon-perl libhttp-negotiate-perl
libio-socket-ssl-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libmailtools-perl
libnet-http-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libwww-perl
libwww-robotrules-perl oinkmaster snort snort-common
snort-common-libraries snort-rules-default
0 upgraded, 23 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Job for snort.service failed because the control process exited with error
code. See "systemctl status snort.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript snort, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package snort (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
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Errors were encountered while processing:
snort
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@ubuntu:~# ifconfig
ens33 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:af:85:8f
inet addr:192.168.133.156 Bcast:192.168.133.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feaf:858f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:668 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2637814 (2.6 MB) TX bytes:93663 (93.6 KB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:11840 (11.8 KB) TX bytes:11840 (11.8 KB)
** Affects: snort (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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snort install unattended doesn't like non-ethX interface names
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