[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#661758: aide: Error while reading configuration

[Olleg Samoylov]

On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 10:58 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> What is in line 940 to 950 of /var/lib/aide/config.autogenerated?

After reinstallation the line number was changed.

# aideinit 
Running aide --init...
954:syntax error:�x
954:Error while reading configuration:�x
Configuration error
AIDE --init return code 17

Here lines 950-960

   950  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/disk\\x2fby-id\
\x2fusb-SEMC_Mass_Storage_4342354131484B33425A-0:0/b8:32$ RamdiskData
   951  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/snd\\x2fby-path\
\x2fpci-0000:00:14\.2$ RamdiskData
   952  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/snd\\x2fby-path\
\x2fpci-0000:00:14\.2/c116:9$ RamdiskData
   953  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/snd\\x2fby-path\
\x2fpci-0000:03:00\.1$ RamdiskData
   954  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/snd\\x2fby-path\
\x2fpci-0000:03:00\.1/c116:14$ RamdiskData
   955  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/disk\\x2fby-label\
\x2fЗарезервировано\\x5cx20системой$ RamdiskData
   956  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/disk\\x2fby-label\
\x2fЗарезервировано\\x5cx20системой/b8:2$ RamdiskData
   957  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/disk\\x2fby-uuid\
\x2f2044599544596E92$ RamdiskData
   958  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/disk\\x2fby-uuid\
\x2f2044599544596E92/b8:2$ RamdiskData
   959  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/disk\\x2fby-path\
\x2fpci-0000:00:11\.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part2$ RamdiskData
   960  /@@{ROOTPREFIX}dev/\.udev/links/disk\\x2fby-path\
\x2fpci-0000:00:11\.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part2/b8:2$ RamdiskData

Line 955 is looked like NTFS label from russian windows installation.
According to the man aide.conf all such symbols must be url encoded. I
tracked  it down. After disabling 70_aide_dev the error dissapear, but a
lot of warnings arise about "atime in future", etc in /dev.

-- 
Olleg Samoylov