[pkg-ggz-maintainers] Bug#478812: ggzd Fails to install

[Riku Voipio]

Package: ggzd
Version: 0.0.14.1-1
Severity: serious

On my desktop:

$ sudo apt-get install ggzd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libggzdmod6
Suggested packages:
  ggz-game-servers
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ggzd
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libggzdmod6
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 654 not upgraded.
Need to get 562kB of archives.
After this operation, 545kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.fi.debian.org lenny/main libggzdmod6 0.0.14.1-1 [247kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.fi.debian.org lenny/main ggzd 0.0.14.1-1 [316kB]
Fetched 562kB in 10s (55,5kB/s)
(Reading database ... 201798 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libggzdmod6 0.0.14-4 (using .../libggzdmod6_0.0.14.1-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libggzdmod6 ...
Selecting previously deselected package ggzd.
Unpacking ggzd (from .../ggzd_0.0.14.1-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up libggzdmod6 (0.0.14.1-1) ...
Setting up ggzd (0.0.14.1-1) ...
Starting GGZ server: ggzd(<errorsys>) Unable to read file /etc/ggzd/ggzd.conf: No such file or directory
(<errormsg>) WARNING:  No configuration file loaded!
(<errorsys>) db_e->open() failed in _ggzdb_init(/var/lib/ggzd): No such file or directory
(<errormsgexit>) *** Database initialization failed
/etc/init.d/ggzd: line 21: 30041 Aborted                 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid games --startas $DAEMON
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript ggzd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing ggzd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ggzd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
$ ls -l /var/lib/ggzd
-rw-r--r-- 1 games games 3  1.5. 11:57 ggzdb.ver
$

If you look at the gnome-games build logs same problem repeats:

http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=gnome-games;ver=1%3A2.22.1.1-2

arm:

Setting up ggzd (0.0.14.1-1) ...
Starting GGZ server: ggzd(<errorsys>) Unable to read file /etc/ggzd/ggzd.conf: No such file or directory
(<errormsg>) WARNING:  No configuration file loaded!
(<errorsys>) db_e->open() failed in _ggzdb_init(/var/lib/ggzd): No such file or directory
(<errormsgexit>) *** Database initialization failed
/etc/init.d/ggzd: line 21: 28831 Aborted                 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid games --startas $DAEMON
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript ggzd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing ggzd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134

armel:

Starting GGZ server: ggzd(<errorsys>) Unable to read file /etc/ggzd/ggzd.conf: No such file or directory
(<errormsg>) WARNING:  No configuration file loaded!
/etc/init.d/ggzd: line 21:  6762 Segmentation fault      start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid games --startas $DAEMON
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript ggzd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing ggzd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139

hppa:

Setting up ggzd (0.0.14.1-1) ...
Starting GGZ server: ggzd(<errorsys>) Unable to read file /etc/ggzd/ggzd.conf: No such file or directory
(<errormsg>) WARNING:  No configuration file loaded!
(<errorsys>) db_e->open() failed in _ggzdb_init(/var/lib/ggzd): No such file or directory
(<errormsgexit>) *** Database initialization failed
/etc/init.d/ggzd: line 21: 28053 Aborted                 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid games --startas $DAEMON
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript ggzd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing ggzd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134

i386(!):

Setting up ggzd (0.0.14.1-1) ...
Starting GGZ server: ggzd(<errorsys>) Unable to read file /etc/ggzd/ggzd.conf: No such file or directory
(<errormsg>) WARNING:  No configuration file loaded!
(<errorsys>) db_e->open() failed in _ggzdb_init(/var/lib/ggzd): No such file or directory
(<errormsgexit>) *** Database initialization failed
/etc/init.d/ggzd: line 21: 11624 Aborted                 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid games --startas $DAEMON
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript ggzd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing ggzd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134

ia64:

Setting up ggzd (0.0.14.1-1) ...
Starting GGZ server: ggzd(<errorsys>) Unable to read file /etc/ggzd/ggzd.conf: No such file or directory
(<errormsg>) WARNING:  No configuration file loaded!
(<errorsys>) db_e->open() failed in _ggzdb_init(/var/lib/ggzd): No such file or directory
(<errormsgexit>) *** Database initialization failed
/etc/init.d/ggzd: line 21:  6862 Aborted                 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid games --startas $DAEMON
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript ggzd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing ggzd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134


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