Package: postgrey
Version: 1.32-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1 "makes package to buggy to release"
This looks to be an incidental fault affecting postgrey, but the serious
consequence is that postgrey refuses to start.
What seems to have happened is that on the recent system upgrade
libberkeleydb-perl (a package upon which postgrey relies) was upgraded
to version 0.38-1. This version moved from db4.6 to db4.7, which seem
to be mutually incompatible formats causing postgrey to fail instantly with
postgrey: FATAL: ERROR: can't create DB environment: No such file or directory
(dbdir: /var/lib/postgrey uid/gid: 121,121)
because it can no longer read the database files in /var/lib/postgrey
The only solution to this appears to be to dump the postgrey databases before
the upgrade and to reform them after (or simply to remove all the old files
losing the accumulated data).
I'm open to this being a severe bug in libberkeleydb-perl either since it
is the root cause, but I think posgrey will still have to acquire the
dump and restore package scripts to fix it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: hppa (parisc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-parisc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages postgrey depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.5.25 Debian configuration management sy
ii libberkeleydb-perl0.38-1 use Berkeley DB 4 databases from P
ii libnet-dns-perl 0.65-1 Perform DNS queries from a Perl sc
ii libnet-server-perl0.97-1 An extensible, general perl server
ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii ucf 3.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages postgrey recommends:
ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.11-2+b1 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith
ii libnet-rblclient-perl 0.5-2 Queries multiple Realtime Blackhol
ii libparse-syslog-perl 1.10-1 Perl module for parsing syslog ent
ii postfix 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance mail transport ag
postgrey suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
postgrey/1.32-3_changeport:
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