[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#631162: sympa: Package will not configure if dbconfig-common is not used

[Michael Howe]

Package: sympa
Version: 6.0.1+dfsg-4
Severity: important

Hello,

When installing, sympa prompts whether to use dbconfig-common or not.
If you select not to, the installation then fails, leaving the package
partially configured:

dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/sympa.conf

Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/sympa.conf with new version
Unknown database type .
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)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up sympa (6.0.1+dfsg-4) ...
dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/sympa.conf
Unknown database type .
dpkg: error processing sympa (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sympa


Looking at the postinst script, it looks like it's the following that's
causing the installation to fail:

name=$dbc_dbname
case "$dbc_dbtype" in
    mysql)
        type=mysql;;
    pgsql)
        type=Pg;;
    sqlite*)
        type=SQLite;
        name="$dbc_basepath/$dbc_dbname";;
    *)
        echo "Unknown database type $dbc_dbtype.";
        exit 1;;
esac

However, since I chose not to use dbconfig-common, I don't think that
this should be being called.

Trying to run dpkg --configure simply ends up with the postinst script
exiting, so it's impossible to get the package out of the 'partially
configured' state, hence the severity of 'important'.

Unfortunately, I'm not particularly familiar with postinst scripts, and
so haven't tried to provide a patch, but would it be possible/sensible
to test if dbconfig-install was set, and if not, skip the translation of
dbconfig-common parameters to sympa's configuration values?

Cheers,

Michael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sympa depends on:
ii  adduser                3.112+nmu2        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbconfig-common        1.8.46+squeeze.0  common framework for packaging dat
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.36.1          Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-daemon-light [ma 4.72-6+squeeze2   lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  libarchive-zip-perl    1.30-3            Perl module for manipulation of ZI
ii  libc6                  2.11.2-10         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcgi-fast-perl       5.10.1-17squeeze1 CGI::Fast Perl module
ii  libcgi-pm-perl         3.49-1squeeze1    module for Common Gateway Interfac
ii  libcrypt-ciphersaber-p 0.61-4            Perl module implementing CipherSab
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl      4.016-1           Perl5 database interface to the My
ii  libdbd-pg-perl         2.17.1-2          Perl DBI driver for the PostgreSQL
ii  libdbd-sqlite3-perl    1.29-3            Perl DBI driver with a self-contai
ii  libdbi-perl            1.612-1           Perl Database Interface (DBI)
ii  libfile-copy-recursive 0.38-1            Perl extension for recursively cop
ii  libhtml-format-perl    2.04-2            format HTML syntax trees into text
ii  libhtml-stripscripts-p 1.03-1            module to filter scripts out of HT
ii  libhtml-tree-perl      3.23-2            Perl module to represent and creat
ii  libintl-perl           1.20-1            Uniforum message translations syst
ii  libio-stringy-perl     2.110-4           Perl modules for IO from scalars a
ii  libmailtools-perl      2.06-1            Manipulate email in perl programs
ii  libmime-charset-perl   1.008-1           Perl module for MIME character set
ii  libmime-encwords-perl  1.012-1           Perl interface to deal with RFC 20
ii  libmime-lite-html-perl 1.23-1            Transform HTML page into MIME emai
ii  libmime-tools-perl [li 5.428-1           Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii  libmsgcat-perl         1.03-5            Locale::Msgcat perl module
ii  libnet-ldap-perl       1:0.4001-2        client interface to LDAP servers
ii  libnet-netmask-perl    1.9015-4          parse, manipulate and lookup IP ne
ii  libregexp-common-perl  2010010201-1      module with common regular express
ii  libtemplate-perl       2.22-0.1          template processing system written
ii  libterm-progressbar-pe 2.09-6            Perl module to print a progress ba
ii  libxml-libxml-perl     1.70.ds-1         Perl interface to the libxml2 libr
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23.2squeeze1  Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mhonarc                2.6.16-1          Mail to HTML converter
ii  perl                   5.10.1-17squeeze1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libcgi-p 5.10.1-17squeeze1 Core Perl modules
ii  perl-suid              5.10.1-17squeeze1 runs setuid Perl scripts
ii  sqlite                 2.8.17-6          command line interface for SQLite
ii  sqlite3                3.7.3-1           A command line interface for SQLit
ii  sysklogd [system-log-d 1.5-6             System Logging Daemon

Versions of packages sympa recommends:
ii  ca-certificates            20090814+nmu2 Common CA certificates
ii  doc-base                   0.9.5         utilities to manage online documen
ii  locales                    2.11.2-10     Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  logrotate                  3.7.8-6       Log rotation utility
pn  mysql-server | postgresql  <none>        (no description available)

Versions of packages sympa suggests:
pn  apache2 | httpd-cgi     <none>           (no description available)
pn  libapache2-mod-fcgid    <none>           (no description available)
ii  libsoap-lite-perl       0.712-2          Perl implementation of a SOAP clie
ii  openssl                 0.9.8o-4squeeze1 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/sympa/sympa.conf-smime.in [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/sympa/sympa.conf-smime.in'

-- debconf information:
* sympa/dbconfig-install: false
  sympa/listmaster: listmaster at zarquon.internal.michaelhowe.org
  wwsympa/wwsympa_url: http://zarquon.internal.michaelhowe.org/wws
* wwsympa/webserver_restart: true
  sympa/upgrade-backup: true
  sympa/pgsql/changeconf: false
  sympa/internal/skip-preseed: true
  sympa/remote/host:
  sympa/internal/reconfiguring: false
  sympa/remove-error: abort
* wwsympa/webserver_type: Apache 2
  sympa/dbconfig-remove:
  sympa/mysql/method: unix socket
  sympa/language: en_US
  sympa/pgsql/method: unix socket
  sympa/install-error: abort
  sympa/pgsql/no-empty-passwords:
  sympa/pgsql/authmethod-admin: ident
  sympa/passwords-do-not-match:
  sympa/missing-db-package-error: abort
  sympa/remove_spool: false
  sympa/remote/newhost:
  sympa/pgsql/manualconf:
  sympa/remote/port:
  sympa/hostname: zarquon.internal.michaelhowe.org
  sympa/pgsql/authmethod-user: password
  sympa/dbconfig-upgrade: true
  sympa/use_soap: false
  sympa/db/dbname:
  sympa/database-type:
  sympa/db/basepath:
  wwsympa/fastcgi: false
  sympa/db/app-user:
  sympa/purge: false
  sympa/mysql/admin-user: root
  sympa/dbconfig-reinstall: false
  sympa/pgsql/admin-user: postgres
  sympa/upgrade-error: abort
  wwsympa/remove_spool: false