Package: ntop Version: 2:3.0-5 Severity: important ntop fails to run from a fresh install on a Debian machine running unstable. It appears to be a permission problem, but setting the file in question to 666 makes no difference. Transcript:
debian:/home/nick# ntop -i eth0 Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 ntop will be started as user nobody Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 ntop v.3.0 SourceForge .tgz MT (SSL) Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 Configured on Jan 30 2005 22:53:02, built on Jan 30 2005 22:53:23. Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 Copyright 1998-2004 by Luca Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 Get the freshest ntop from http://www.ntop.org/ Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 Initializing ntop Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 Checking eth0 for additional devices Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 Resetting traffic statistics for device eth0 Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 DLT: Device 0 [eth0] is 1, mtu 1514, header 14 Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 Initializing gdbm databases Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 Now running as requested user 'nobody' (65534:65534) Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 **FATAL_ERROR** ....open of /var/lib/ntop/ntop_pw.db failed: File open error Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 1. Is another instance of ntop running? Sat Aug 27 10:13:23 2005 2. Make sure that the use you specified can write in the target directory debian:/home/nick# -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.3 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages ntop depends on: ii debconf 1.4.57 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgd2-noxpm 2.0.33-2 GD Graphics Library version 2 (wit ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpcap0.7 0.7.2-7 System interface for user-level pa ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7g-1 SSL shared libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-3 compression library - runtime ntop recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * ntop/user: ntop * ntop/interfaces: eth0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
