[Pkg-pdns-maintainers] Bug#769944: The server can't load /usr/lib/powerdns/libbindbackend.so, it's actually located at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pdns/libbindbackend.so

Debian bug at v.nix.is debian-bug at v.nix.is
Mon Nov 17 19:32:19 UTC 2014


Package: pdns-server
Version: 3.4.1-3
Severity: grave

When I upgraded from 3.3.* I started getting this in error log:

    Nov 17 19:28:30 u pdns[14671]: Loading '/usr/lib/powerdns/libbindbackend.so'
    Nov 17 19:28:30 u pdns[14671]: Unable to load module '/usr/lib/powerdns/libbindbackend.so': /usr/lib/powerdns/libbindbackend.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    Nov 17 19:28:30 u pdns[14671]: dnsbackend unable to load module in bind
    Nov 17 19:28:31 u pdns[14500]: Our pdns instance exited with code 1
    Nov 17 19:28:31 u pdns[14500]: Respawning

There's no such *.so file. To hack around this I've done this:

    $ sudo mkdir /usr/lib/powerdns/
    $ sudo ln -s $(dpkg -L pdns-server|grep libbindbackend.so) /usr/lib/powerdns/libbindbackend.so
    $ file /usr/lib/powerdns/libbindbackend.so
    /usr/lib/powerdns/libbindbackend.so: symbolic link to `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pdns/libbindbackend.so'

Which makes pdns-server work again.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pdns-server depends on:
ii  adduser                         3.113+nmu3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]           1.5.53
ii  init-system-helpers             1.21
ii  libboost-program-options1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libboost-serialization1.55.0    1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libbotan-1.10-0                 1.10.8-2
ii  libc6                           2.19-13
ii  libcrypto++9                    5.6.1-6
ii  libgcc1                         1:4.9.1-19
ii  libgmp10                        2:6.0.0+dfsg-6
ii  liblua5.1-0                     5.1.5-7.1
ii  libpolarssl7                    1.3.8-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                    3.8.7.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                      4.9.1-19
ii  lsb-base                        4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  ucf                             3.0030

pdns-server recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pdns-server suggests:
pn  pdns-backend   <none>
ii  pdns-recursor  3.6.2-2

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