Package: munin-node
Version: 1.2.6-7
Severity: important

In previous months, munin-node was working so this might just be a symptom of
another problem introduced when I started to pull in some testing packages on
this stable system.  When I saw the error from my dpkg --purge attempts, I
felt compelled to send this report because an unclean purge could interfere
with the next install.

About a month ago, the munin data from this system stopped appearing on the
graphs.  I tried my typical apt-get install --reinstall munin-node response.
For some reason, no error messages show up during a --reinstall.  But if I
use dpkg --purge munin-node to clear the slate, on the next install I always
get the following error messages:

Setting up munin (1.2.6-7) ...
Setting up munin-node (1.2.6-7) ...
Initializing plugins..# There were some errors:
# Got junk from postgres_space_: DBI connect('','',...) failed: FATAL:  Ident 
authentication 
failed for user "nobody" at /usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_space_ line 62
# Got junk from postgres_queries_: DBI connect('','',...) failed: FATAL:  Ident 
authentication failed for user "nobody" at 
/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_queries_ line 
98
# Got junk from postgres_block_read_: DBI connect('','',...) failed: FATAL:  
Ident 
authentication failed for user "nobody" at 
/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_block_read_ 
line 96
# Got junk from postgres_commits_: Use of uninitialized value $maybe_dbname in 
string eq at 
/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_commits_ line 111.
# Got junk from postgres_commits_: DBI connect('','',...) failed: FATAL:  Ident 
authentication failed for user "nobody" at 
/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_commits_ line 
130
done.
Starting Munin-Node: done.

It puzzles me why a --reinstall does not generate these error messages.  An
example of the --reinstall follows below:

Stopping Munin-Node: done.
Unpacking replacement munin-node ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up munin (1.2.6-7) ...
Setting up munin-node (1.2.6-7) ...
Initializing new plugins..done.
Starting Munin-Node: done.

The errors on dpkg --purge are less consistent.  The initial attempts complained
about directories not being deleted and I manually deleted them.  Since I 
started
to type this message and have been cutting and pasting from another window, I am
unable to reproduce the errors I previously saw.  I was not rigorous in using a
script to return to the same pristine condition on each attempt.  It is possible
that the errors were related to some intermediate state where only some of the
directories were manually deleted.  I remember the error message talking about
post-removal issues but I cannot reproduce it to cut and paste into this email.

I wish I could be more helpful in this report, but perhaps it is sufficient to
start exploring why apt-get install --reinstall munin-node fails to generate
the error messages I find after the dpkg --purge munin-node.  If reportbug
does not supply enough information, I will gladly provide any more that you
request.  I should also let you know that I was previously installing and
purging all 3 packages (munin, munin-node, and munin-plugins-extra) with the
same results although this report was generated with 2 packages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages munin-node depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.110            add and remove users and groups
ii  gawk                    1:3.1.5.dfsg-4.1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  libnet-server-perl      0.97-1           An extensible, general perl server
ii  lsb-base                3.2-20           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl                    5.10.0-16        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  procps                  1:3.2.7-8        /proc file system utilities

Versions of packages munin-node recommends:
ii  libnet-snmp-perl              5.2.0-1    Script SNMP connections

Versions of packages munin-node suggests:
ii  ethtool                     6+20080227-1 display or change ethernet card se
ii  libdbd-pg-perl              2.8.7-1      Perl DBI driver for the PostgreSQL
ii  liblwp-useragent-determined 1.03-1       a LWP useragent that retries error
ii  libnet-irc-perl             0.75-8       IRC (Internet Relay Chat) interfac
ii  libwww-perl                 5.813-1      WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  lm-sensors                  1:3.0.2-1+b2 utilities to read temperature/volt
ii  munin                       1.2.6-7      network-wide graphing framework (g
pn  munin-plugins-extra         <none>       (no description available)
ii  mysql-client                5.0.51a-15   MySQL database client (metapackage
ii  mysql-client-5.0 [mysql-cli 5.0.51a-15   MySQL database client binaries
ii  python                      2.5.2-2      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  smartmontools               5.38-2       control and monitor storage system

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