[Dbconfig-common-devel] Re: Bug#398525: simba: postinst fails: No mysql client to execute. (have you installed mysql-client?

[Radu Spineanu]

Hello Lucas,

There was a missing dependency on virtual-mysql-client.
When trying to run piuparts on the fixed package i encountered this error:

[..]
  Setting up simba (0.8.4-2) ...
  dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/simba.conf

  Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/simba.conf with new version

  Creating config file /etc/simba/simba-db.cfg with new version
  error encountered creating user:
  ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
  dbconfig-common: simba configure: aborted.
  dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
  dpkg: error processing simba (--configure):
   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   simba
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[..]

I tried to reproduce it with cacti and i found the same problem again.

Since both cacti and simba are using dbconfig-common a proper fix should
be applied there.

A possible solution would be to modify the "Configure database with
dbconfig-common?" template to have a false default value.

Cheers,
Radu Spineanu

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> During a piuparts run over all the packages in etch, I ran into a
> problem with your package:
>   Setting up simba (0.8.4-1) ...
>   dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/simba.conf
>   
>   Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/simba.conf with new version
>   
>   Creating config file /etc/simba/simba-db.cfg with new version
>   sanity check failed for mysql.
>   error encountered creating user:
>   No mysql client to execute. (have you installed mysql-client?
>   dbconfig-common: simba configure: aborted.
>   dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
>   dpkg: error processing simba (--configure):
>    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>