[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#714303: installation hangs indefinitely

[Raf Czlonka]

Package: aide-common
Version: 0.16~a2.git20130520-1
Severity: grave

Hi,

In order to make sure that the bug #641810 has indeed been fixed, I
removed '/etc/aide' directory and all its content as 'aide-common' does
not clean up after itself on 'purge'.

This has already been reported nearly a year ago in a bug #683877, to
which the error message below, seems to be related to. The latter bug
needs its severity increased to 'important' at the very least, BTW, as
it prevent one from fully reinstalling the package in question.

After dozens of:

Not replacing deleted config file /etc/aide/aide.conf.d/...

Package installation hangs indefinitely after:

/etc/aide/aide.conf.d/31_aide_apt: line 3: /etc/aide/aide.settings.d/10_aide_sourceslist: No such file or directory

Processes which are running and are related to the package:

% ps auwx|grep aide
root      8710  0.0  0.9  17492 13976 pts/4    Ss+  16:30   0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 45 --configure aide:powerpc aide-common:all
root      8711  0.4  0.8  19016 13712 pts/4    S+   16:31   0:06 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/aide-common.postinst configure 
root      8718  0.0  0.0   2128   656 pts/4    S+   16:31   0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/aide-common.postinst configure 
root     17256  0.0  0.0   4720  1520 pts/4    S+   16:33   0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/update-aide.conf
root     17260  0.0  0.0   4720   920 pts/4    S+   16:33   0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/update-aide.conf
root     17261  0.0  0.0   4720   648 pts/4    S+   16:33   0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/update-aide.conf
root     17275  0.0  0.0   4712  1496 pts/4    S+   16:33   0:00 /bin/bash /etc/aide/aide.conf.d/31_aide_apt
root     17278  0.0  0.0   4712   504 pts/4    S+   16:33   0:00 /bin/bash /etc/aide/aide.conf.d/31_aide_apt

The fix was quite simple:

% cd /usr/share/aide/config/aide && \
for i in aide.conf aide.conf.d/* aide.settings.d/* ; \
do sudo ucf --purge /etc/aide/$i ; done

It is, however, unacceptable as a solution to both #683877 and, in turn,
this bug.

In order to resolve this one, bug #683877 needs to be fixed first.

Thank you for your work on AIDE packages.

Kind regards,

Raf

P.S. What is the benefit of having all the configuration under
'/usr/share/aide/config/aide' and then all of it copied *again* to
'/etc/aide'? Wouldn't it be easier to install all of the files directly
to '/etc/aide' in the first place?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (999, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aide-common depends on:
iu  aide                    0.16~a2.git20130520-1
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]       8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]  0.182
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.50
ii  initscripts             2.88dsf-41
ii  liblockfile1            1.09-6
ii  mailutils [mailx]       1:2.99.97-3
ii  ucf                     3.0027

Versions of packages aide-common recommends:
ii  cron  3.0pl1-124

aide-common suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* aide/aideinit: true
  aideinit/overwritenew: true
* aideinit/copynew: true