[pkg-horde] Bug#401757: horde3 configuration generated automatically is missing some fundamental parameters

Massimo Manghi manghi at biol.unipr.it
Tue Dec 5 19:00:02 CET 2006


Package: horde3
Version: 3.1.3-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I installed horde3 on etch using a clean system that had no previous
horde/imp installation. After having carried out every single step
in the installation checklist, changed the authorization bits and so on,
I was able to access the configuration page and chose some requested
options. As i generated the configuration horde3 was ipso-facto hosed 
since some fundamental parameters are actually missing in the conf files. 
At first scripts are stuck with the charset parameter not being 
specified in the conf global structure. 
Hacking the conf structure with an editor overcomes that problem but 
scripts then fail inexorably with the following error 

DB Error: not found

[line 393 of /usr/share/horde3/lib/Horde/Prefs/sql.php]
...
Unable to include the DB/.php file for 'Array'"

I suggest to provide a reasonable default for each and every
one parameter that might be otherwise left out of the conf files, 
given the complexity and size of the configuration.

For some steps the documentation provided in README.Debian
is inaccurate (admittedly the package is not simple either): 
eg the README suggests to create separately the
session table, whereas it is created by default by the script 
that created the basic horde3 database (mysql), no file location for 
the 'php_flag session.auto_start Off' setting is provided 
(I found one in /etc/php4/apache/php.ini with a slighly different 
syntax. Is that the one?). The README makes reference to a link
(``Configuration``) in the Administration menu that doesn't exist
(maybe this is the real problem?)

thank you for your efforts and sorry for my inability 
to stay concise.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages horde3 depends on:
ii  apache [httpd]                1.3.34-4   versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii  libapache-mod-php4            6:4.4.4-8  server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php-log                       1.9.8-1    Log module for PEAR
ii  php-pear                      5.2.0-7    PEAR - PHP Extension and Applicati
ii  php4-domxml                   6:4.4.4-8  XMLv2 module for php4
ii  php4-pear                     6:4.4.4-8  PHP Extension and Application Repo

Versions of packages horde3 recommends:
ii  logrotate                     3.7.1-3    Log rotation utility
ii  php-date                      1.4.6-1    PHP PEAR module for date and time 
ii  php-file                      1.0.3-1    PHP Pear modules for common file a
ii  php-mail                      1.1.6-2    PHP PEAR module for sending email
ii  php-mail-mime                 1.3.1-1    PHP PEAR module for creating and d
ii  php-services-weather          1.4.0-1    acts as an interface to various on
ii  php4-gd [php4-gd2]            6:4.4.4-8  GD module for php4
ii  php4-mcrypt                   6:4.4.4-8  MCrypt module for php4
ii  php4-mysql                    6:4.4.4-8  MySQL module for php4

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