Your message dated Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:21:19 +0100
with message-id <496f708f.50...@scram.de>
and subject line Re: [Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#453123: Upgrade fails if snmpd is
running
has caused the Debian Bug report #453123,
regarding Upgrading snmpd from 5.2.2-3 to 5.2.3-1 hangs in snmpd.postinst
to be marked as done.
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453123: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453123
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Package: snmpd
Version: 5.2.3-1
Severity: normal
I have noticed this on several machines, that upgrading snmpd just
"sits there"
I have taken a ps -ef --forest when it happens, and that shows:
root 4213 3193 0 12:24 pts/0 00:00:00 | \_ apt-get install
snmpd
root 4448 4213 0 12:25 pts/0 00:00:00 | \_
/usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 11 --configure perl perl-modules libperl5.8
libperl-dev libsnmp-base libsnmp9 libsnmp-perl snmpd
root 4458 4448 0 12:26 pts/0 00:00:00 | \_
/usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/snmpd.postinst
configure 5.2.2-3
root 4469 4458 0 12:26 pts/0 00:00:00 | \_
[snmpd.postinst] <defunct>
And this process tree never finishes. Hitting CTRL-C terminates the
snmpd.postinst and the apt-get install finishes with an error for snmpd.
A subsequent apt-get install -f apparently fixes that error and the system
seems to be in a "good" state afterwards. But apt-get install hangs and
requires manual intervention.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.vmware
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages snmpd depends on:
ii adduser 3.87 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.5.2 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libsensors3 1:2.10.0-7 library to read temperature/voltag
ii libsnmp9 5.2.3-1 NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-9 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
snmpd recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
snmpd/upgradefrom36:
* snmpd/upgradefrom521:
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Version: 5.4.1~dfsg-12
Steve Langasek schrieb:
> But it is precisely against version 5.4.1~dfsg-4 that bug #453123 was
> submitted. It's possible that bug #453123 is not the same as bug #391203
> with which it has been merged, since 453123 shows a failure to start the
> daemon at all rather than a hang after start. Should these bugs be
> un-merged?
The whole bug is a mess. The original bug was about some upgrade not stopping
snmpd propperly. With 5.4.1~dfsg-12, the upgrade won't fail anymore, however if
snmpd fails to stop, the old version will still be running after the upgrade.
Later someone posted a followup with a duplicate of #391203.
Thanks for letting me know. The issue (and both bugs) should be resolved now.
Jochen
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