[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#631398: aideinit fails: Error in expression

Zed Pobre zed at debian.org
Thu Jun 23 15:09:09 UTC 2011


Package: aide
Version: 0.15.1-2
Severity: important

I cannot initialize the aide database on a fresh Squeeze build.
Running "aideinit" results in lines like the following:

Running aide --init...
471:Error in expression:�Qe
Configuration error
AIDE --init return code 17

The characters that follow "Eror in expression" change from run to
run, though they always seem to start with that inverse-text
questionmark symbol.  That text does not appear in
/var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated, nor does there appear to be any
special unicode character on line 471.

Since I'm not seeing lots of bug reports on a completely broken AIDE,
I can only assume there's something odd in my environment causing it,
but it persists even after I remove all of my custom rulesets in
aide.conf.d and forcibly remove
/var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated.  It happens on both i386 and
amd64 Squeeze boxes.  The version in Lenny (0.13.1-10) works fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (350, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aide depends on:
ii  aide-common        0.15.1-2              Advanced Intrusion Detection Envir
ii  bsd-mailx          8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent
ii  liblockfile1       1.08-4                NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii  ucf                3.0025+nmu1           Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages aide recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon

aide suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information





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