[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#863701: sympa: insists that cookie has changed when it hasn't

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 05/30/2017 09:37 AM, Dominik George wrote:
> Package: sympa
> Version: 6.2.16~dfsg-3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> SYMPA suddenly refuses to start with:
> 
> May 30 09:35:20 terra sympa_msg.pl[22389]: DIED: sympa.conf/cookie parameter has changed. You may have severe inconsitencies into password storage. Restore previous cookie or write some tool to re-encrypt password in database and check spools contents (look at /etc/sympa/cookies.history file). at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/sympa_msg.pl line 310.
> May 30 09:35:20 terra sympa_msg.pl[22389]:  at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/sympa_msg.pl line 310.
> May 30 09:35:20 terra sympa_msg.pl[22389]:         main::_load() called at /usr/lib/sympa/bin/sympa_msg.pl line 87
> 
> Now, while I see why this protection is in place, unfortunately, the
> cookie has not changed. Neither has the parameter in the config file
> changed (checked with etckeeper), nor has the contents of the cookie
> file changed (checked with etckeeper), nor is anything different in
> cookies.history.
> 
> SYMPA just decided to block startup.

The configuration file is at /etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf for the Debian package,
so this hasn't changed?

What are the permissions of the cookie file?

Regards
         Racke

> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.0
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64
>  (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages sympa depends on:
> ii  adduser                           3.115
> ii  ca-certificates                   20161130+nmu1
> ii  dbconfig-common                   2.0.8
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]             1.5.60
> ii  fonts-font-awesome                4.7.0~dfsg-1
> ii  init-system-helpers               1.48
> ii  libarchive-zip-perl               1.59-1
> ii  libc6                             2.24-10
> ii  libcgi-fast-perl                  1:2.12-1
> ii  libcgi-pm-perl                    4.35-1
> ii  libclass-singleton-perl           1.5-1
> ii  libcrypt-openssl-x509-perl        1.8.7-3
> ii  libcrypt-smime-perl               0.19-2
> ii  libdatetime-format-mail-perl      0.4030-1
> ii  libdbd-csv-perl                   0.4900-1
> ii  libdbd-mysql-perl                 4.041-2
> ii  libdbd-pg-perl                    3.5.3-1+b2
> ii  libdbd-sqlite3-perl               1.54-1
> ii  libdbi-perl                       1.636-1+b1
> ii  libfcgi-perl                      0.78-2
> ii  libfile-copy-recursive-perl       0.38-1
> ii  libfile-nfslock-perl              1.27-1
> ii  libhtml-format-perl               2.12-1
> ii  libhtml-stripscripts-parser-perl  1.03-1
> ii  libhtml-tree-perl                 5.03-2
> ii  libintl-perl                      1.26-2
> ii  libio-stringy-perl                2.111-2
> ii  libjs-jquery                      3.1.1-2
> ii  libjs-jquery-migrate-1            1.4.1-1
> ii  libjs-jquery-placeholder          2.3.1-2
> ii  libjs-jquery-ui                   1.12.1+dfsg-4
> ii  libjs-modernizr                   2.6.2+ds1-1
> ii  libjs-twitter-bootstrap           2.0.2+dfsg-10
> ii  libmail-dkim-perl                 0.40-1
> ii  libmailtools-perl                 2.18-1
> ii  libmime-charset-perl              1.012-2
> ii  libmime-encwords-perl             1.014.3-2
> ii  libmime-lite-html-perl            1.24-2
> ii  libmime-tools-perl                5.508-1
> ii  libmsgcat-perl                    1.03-6+b3
> ii  libnet-cidr-perl                  0.18-1
> ii  libnet-dns-perl                   1.07-1
> ii  libnet-ldap-perl                  1:0.6500+dfsg-1
> ii  libnet-netmask-perl               1.9022-1
> ii  libregexp-common-perl             2016060801-1
> ii  libsoap-lite-perl                 1.20-1
> ii  libtemplate-perl                  2.24-1.2+b3
> ii  libterm-progressbar-perl          2.18-1
> ii  libunicode-linebreak-perl         0.0.20160702-1+b1
> ii  libxml-libxml-perl                2.0128+dfsg-1+b1
> ii  lsb-base                          9.20161125
> ii  mhonarc                           2.6.19-2
> ii  perl                              5.24.1-2
> pn  perl:any                          <none>
> ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]    3.1.4-4
> ii  rsyslog [system-log-daemon]       8.24.0-1
> ii  sqlite3                           3.16.2-3
> 
> Versions of packages sympa recommends:
> ii  apache2-suexec-pristine [apache2-suexec]  2.4.25-3
> ii  doc-base                                  0.10.7
> ii  libapache2-mod-fcgid                      1:2.3.9-1+b1
> pn  libcrypt-ciphersaber-perl                 <none>
> ii  libio-socket-ssl-perl                     2.044-1
> ii  locales                                   2.24-10
> ii  logrotate                                 3.11.0-0.1
> ii  postgresql                                9.6+181
> 
> Versions of packages sympa suggests:
> ii  apache2 [httpd-cgi]  2.4.25-3
> pn  libauthcas-perl      <none>
> pn  libdbd-odbc-perl     <none>
> pn  libdbd-oracle-perl   <none>
> 
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/sympa/auth.conf changed [not included]
> 
> -- debconf information excluded
> 
> 


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