[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#606704: sympa: installation fails

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 12/11/2010 01:41 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Package: sympa
> Version: 6.0.1+dfsg-3
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: instest-20101207 instest
>
> Hi,
>
> While testing the installation of all packages in squeeze, I ran
> into the following problem:
>

[..]

>> + echo Not configuring Web server.
>> Not configuring Web server.
>> + db_get wwsympa/webserver_restart
>> + _db_cmd GET wwsympa/webserver_restart
>> + IFS=  printf %s\n GET wwsympa/webserver_restart
>> + IFS=
>> read -r _db_internal_line
>> + RET=true
>> + return 0
>> + restart=true
>> + [ true = true ]
>> + [ -x /etc/init.d/none ]
>> + su -s /bin/sh -c /usr/lib/sympa/bin/sympa.pl -f /etc/sympa/sympa.conf --prepare_db -l sympa
>> Error at line 180: /etc/sympa/sympa.conf
>> Language::SetLang() Failed to setlocale(en_US) ; you either have a problem with the catalogue .mo files or you should extend available locales in  your /etc/locale.gen (or /etc/sysconfig/i18n) file
>> Language::SetLang() Failed to setlocale(en_US) ; you either have a problem with the catalogue .mo files or you should extend available locales in  your /etc/locale.gen (or /etc/sysconfig/i18n) file
>> mail::smtpto() Missing Return-Path in mail::smtpto()
>> Configuration file /etc/sympa/sympa.conf has errors.
>> dpkg: error processing sympa (--configure):
>> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> configured to not write apport reports
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> sympa
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>> -- Stopping postgresql anyway: OK
>> Stopping PostgreSQL 8.4 database server: main.
>> -- Stopping mysql anyway: OK
>> Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
>
> The full build log is available from:
>   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2010/12/07/sympa.log
>
> It is reproducible by installing your package in a clean chroot, using
> the debconf Noninteractive frontend, and priority: critical.
>
> This test was carried out using about 50 AMD64 nodes of the Grid'5000
> platform.  Internet was not accessible from the nodes.
>

It looks like we have multiple problems here:

1. unattended installation should pick sqlite backend.
2. missing locales
3. error mail::smtpto() Missing Return-Path in mail::smtpto()

I could easily reproduce the first problem.

Regards
	Racke

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