Package: mcollective Version: 2.0.0+dfsg-2 Severity: normal When mcollective daemon is configured to start automatically, it is restarted on each package upgrade or reconfiguration. During this restart, it inherits dpkg and debconf internal variables in environment:
root@zcrha:~# dpkg-reconfigure mcollective root@zcrha:~# ps -ef | grep mcoll root 30700 1 0 08:59 ? 00:00:00 ruby /usr/sbin/mcollectived --config=/etc/mcollective/server.cfg --pid=/var/run/mcollective.pid root 30706 22582 0 08:59 pts/14 00:00:00 grep mcoll root@zcrha:~# cat /proc/30700/environ MAIL=/var/mail/root USER=root LANGUAGE=en_US:en SHLVL=1 HOME=/root XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=cf7dc7a267ea309208ab8047509b5dd0-1369289678.605759-127222237 DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE=1 DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH=all LOGNAME=root _=/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME=postinst TERM=xterm PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DISPLAY=:0.0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE=mcollective XAUTHORITY=/home/zcrha/.Xauthority DEBCONF_REDIR=1 SHELL=/bin/bash DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND=1 PWD=/root When mcollective is used for package installation (using custom agent) later on, it fails in the debconf /usr/share/debconf/confmodule:22: 22 if [ -z "$DEBCONF_REDIR" ]; then 23 # Redirect standard output to standard error. This prevents common 24 # mistakes by making all the output of the postinst or whatever 25 # script is using this library not be parsed as confmodule commands. 26 # 27 # To actually send something to standard output, send it to fd 3. 28 exec 3>&1 29 if [ "$DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF" ]; then 30 exec 1>&5 31 else 32 exec 1>&2 33 fi 34 DEBCONF_REDIR=1 35 export DEBCONF_REDIR 36 fi The cause is that DEBCONF_REDIR is already set to 1 due to environment inherited when restarting daemon in mcollective postinst. Resetting environment in the mcollective init script solves this issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages mcollective depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49 ii mcollective-common 2.2.3.20130502-1 ii ruby 1:1.9.3 ii ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter] 1.8.7.358-7 ii ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter] 1.9.3.194-8.1 Versions of packages mcollective recommends: ii mcollective-client 2.2.3.20130502-1 Versions of packages mcollective suggests: pn activemq <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/mcollective changed: RUN=yes -- debconf information: * mcollective/start_on_boot: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
