Package: webcalendar Version: 1.0.2-2 Severity: grave When I installed webcalendar, I got the option "Let debconf manage settings.php?"
- Choosing "yes" led to a permissions error trying to execute /usr/share/webcalendar/tools/dbconfig_oldconf.sh (which had permissions 644) - Choosing "no" led to an error starting with "sanity check failed for dbc_dbtype". - Both errors left the package in a "broken" dpkg state - chmod a+x .../dbconfig_oldconf.sh and dpkg-reconfigure led to a string of errors "no such file /etc/webcalendar/settings.php", as it tried to detect my settings from a nonexistant "previous installation" So, I tried to just ignore the post-install script and use the instructions in /usr/share/doc/webcalendar/README.gz for postgresql, namely: createuser --no-adduser --no-createdb webcalendar createdb --owner webcalendar webcalendar pgsql -U webcalendar webcalendar \i /usr/share/webcalendar/sql/tables-postgres.sql Then I added "Include /etc/webcalendar/apache.conf" to my Apache site-config, which according to README.gz should be enough to get the initial setup page at http://localhost/webcalendar, which will create the settings.php file. But whenever I go to that URL, I get "Could not read /etc/webcalendar/settings.conf". Indeed, settings.conf doesn't exist. I've tried commenting in the SetEnv line in apache.conf and giving it the name "settings.php" instead (which also doesn't exist, but it's the filename mentioned in README.gz), and against my own instincts I did "chmod -R 777 /etc/webcalendar" and "chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webcalendar" - the README says to chmod 777 some directory, but I can't figure out which. Since this didn't work, I went looking for more docs, and found that /usr/share/webcalendar/www is a broken symlink (to "../../../webcalendar/docs"). Since the post-install script doesn't work, the install contains dangling symlinks, and the only docs (README.gz) don't seem to match reality, I conclude that this package is completely broken. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages webcalendar depends on: ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.0.55-4 traditional model for Apache2 ii dbconfig-common 1.8.11 common framework for packaging dat ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.56 Debian configuration management sy ii php4 4:4.4.2-1 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii php4-cli 4:4.4.2-1+b1 command-line interpreter for the p ii php4-mysql 4:4.4.2-1+b1 MySQL module for php4 ii ucf 2.000 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages webcalendar recommends: ii php4-cli 4:4.4.2-1+b1 command-line interpreter for the p ii postgresql 7.4.7-6sarge1 object-relational SQL database man -- debconf information: webcalendar/conf/httpd_conf: apache2 webcalendar/note/admin_user: webcalendar/conf/db_persistent: false webcalendar/conf/single_user_login: webcalendar/conf/single_user_mode: false webcalendar/conf/use_http_auth: false webcalendar/status/debconf_managed: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
