Hi! On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 00:50:29 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On Tuesday, 5. February 2013 01:01:43 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > As far as I can tell, /etc/nagios3/stylesheets/* were introduced in the > > squeeze nagios3-cgi package. /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg was a conffile with > > nagios3-common in wheezy, and transitioned to nagios3-cgi for wheezy. My > > guess is something wrong in the transition from nagios3-common to > > nagios3-cgi for cgi.cfg, but I'm not sure what exactly is needed there.
> OK. I see what happened here. Not nagios3's fault. > Bug #689836: dpkg: md5sums incorrectly recorded for conffile takeover > http://bugs.debian.org/689836 > > So it's broken in squeeze (dpkg database is corrupted, i.e. contains the > wrong > md5sums (well, it contains the correct md5sums, too, but at the wrong > place)). Whether this happens depends on the configuration order. If > nagios-doc is configured before nagios3-cgi it will record the new md5sum for > updated conffiles for nagios3-doc instead of nagios-cgi ... even if it no > longer owns these files. > > I have no idea how many packages are possibly affected by this or how this > can > be fixed ... therefore Cc:ing Guillem. TBH I'm not sure how many can be affected, my guess would be not many though. > Wait, we can try this: > > # apt-get install --reinstall nagios3-cgi > # dpkg -s nagios3-cgi [...] > > Great, that FIXED the DB. Right, it should just be either a matter of time, once every problematic package has been upgraded after getting a fixed dpkg, or people actively reinstalling broken packages. In any case, for wheezy I guess it would be nice to strongly recommend on the release notes to upgrade dpkg first. I also had in mind checking with the SRM if the fix for the above dpkg bug would be fine for a stable update, among some others, but only after having those in unstable and testing for a long while. But that will still not guarantee that people have upgraded to that stable dpkg version before the wheezy dist-upgrade, so... Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
