Package: cacti Version: 0.8.6g-3 Severity: grave Justification: n
After the last upgrade of Cacti, the /etc/cacti/debian.php was replaced with default/null values. This caused polling to stop and data for five days was lost for my install. During the upgrade, I recall being prompted about the new dbconfig-common option. I selected "n" for No. However, the file was cleared, rendering Cacti disfunctional. I didn't notice until today that polling had stopped. I noticed when I saw an error message while trying to review stats for the week. I was able to reproduce the problem, after populating the proper values into the /etc/cacti/debian.php file, I ran dpkg-reconfigure cacti again, and selected no to the question; Configure database for cacti with dbconfig-common? n And, again, it overwrote the file and cleared values. Expected result: Don't touch the config files if user says NO. I didn't see anything obvious in /usr/share/doc/cacti about this issue. Furthermore, the replacement of this vital config file was very silent. That's not very nice. Hopefully I didn't do anything wrong myself. Ask any questions needed to clarify. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.32-2005120801 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages cacti depends on: ii apache 1.3.34-1 versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii dbconfig-common 1.8.9 common framework for packaging dat ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.62 Debian configuration management sy ii libphp-adodb 4.64-4 The 'adodb' database abstraction l ii logrotate 3.7.1-2 Log rotation utility ii mysql-client-4.1 [virtual-mys 4.1.15-1 mysql database client binaries ii php4 4:4.4.0-4 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii php4-cli 4:4.4.0-4 command-line interpreter for the p ii php4-mysql 4:4.4.0-4 MySQL module for php4 ii php4-snmp 4:4.4.0-4 SNMP module for php4 ii rrdtool 1.2.11-0.4 Time-series data storage and displ ii snmp 5.2.1.2-4 NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen ii ucf 2.004 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages cacti recommends: pn iputils-ping <none> (no description available) ii mysql-server 4.1.15-1 mysql database server (transitiona ii mysql-server-4.1 [mysql-serve 4.1.15-1 mysql database server binaries -- debconf information: * cacti/username: cacti cacti/db/app-user: cacti/mysql/admin-user: root * cacti/mysql_server: localhost * cacti/webserver: Apache cacti/mysql/method: unix socket cacti/remote/host: cacti/upgrade-error: abort cacti/import-oldsettings: cacti/dbconfig-upgrade: true cacti/remote/newhost: cacti/purge: false cacti/upgrade_warning: cacti/database-type: mysql * cacti/database: cacti cacti/remove-error: abort cacti/db/dbname: cacti/mismatch: cacti/upgrade-backup: true cacti/install-error: abort cacti/root_mysql: root cacti/passwords-do-not-match: * cacti/no_automagic: cacti/dbconfig-remove: true * cacti/dbconfig-install: false cacti/purge_db: true cacti/performing_upgrade: true cacti/remote/port: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
