[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#641810: /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new not copied

[Hannes von Haugwitz]

# fixed in f956b04
tags 641810 pending
thanks

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:32:08PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> One of the install scripts is broken.
> When debconf asks you whether you want to copy /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new
> to /var/lib/aide/aide.db and you answer "Yes" it is still not happening,
> as you can see from the error generated below.
> 
> 
> This is an automated report generated by the Advanced Intrusion Detection
> Environment on thor.local started at 2011-09-16 07:35:20.
> 
> ******************************************************************************
> *               The cron job was terminated by a fatal error.                *
> ******************************************************************************
> 
> 
> ******************************************************************************
> *    the cron job was interrupted before AIDE could return an exit code.     *
> ******************************************************************************
> ******************************************************************************
> *                               script errors                                *
> ******************************************************************************
> Fatal error: The AIDE database '/var/lib/aide/aide.db' does not exist!
> This may mean you haven't created it, or it may mean that someone has removed it.
> End of script errors
> 
> AIDE produced no errors.
> 
> funny, AIDE did not leave a log.
> 
> End of AIDE daily cron job at 2011-09-16 07:35, run time 0 seconds

This situation can occur if the cron job is started while the
initialization process of the installation is still running.

I adjusted the error message above to include this explanation.

Best regards

Hannes