Debian Bug report logs - #120421
zephyr-clients should not fail to configure if primary hosts not found

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eric DeWitt <edewitt@hampshire.edu>

To: "Debian BTS" <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: zephyr-clients should not fail to configure if primary hosts not found

Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:27:39 -0500

Package:  zephyr-clients
Version:  2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-3
Severity: Minor

During configuration of zephyr-clients if you have no connectivity to the 
primary zephyr server you should not receive a failed to configure from 
the (pre) configure script.  This is not a configuration failure (if the 
test for connectivity is to be conducted it should be conducted inside 
the script with a notification to the user if the host cannot be located. 
 But the configuration script should not return an error code, 
contributing to the failure of a dist-upgrade, etc.

Message #10 received at 120421@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: kcr@debian.org

To: Eric DeWitt <edewitt@hampshire.edu>

Cc: 120421@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#120421: zephyr-clients should not fail to configure if primary hosts not found

Date: 21 Nov 2001 03:55:08 -0500

uh, there is no test for connectivity in the configure script.  However,
the host manager daemon won't start correctly if it can't reach [lookup in
dns?] a zephyr server, and that would cause the install to fail.  This is,
sadly, an upstream bug, but it's one that may be fixed at some point.

Eric DeWitt <edewitt@hampshire.edu> writes:

> Package: zephyr-clients
> Version: 2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-3
> Severity: Minor
> 
> During configuration of zephyr-clients if you have no connectivity to the 
> primary zephyr server you should not receive a failed to configure from 
> the (pre) configure script.  This is not a configuration failure (if the 
> test for connectivity is to be conducted it should be conducted inside 
> the script with a notification to the user if the host cannot be located. 
>  But the configuration script should not return an error code, 
> contributing to the failure of a dist-upgrade, etc.

Message #15 received at 120421@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrew Gallagher <ab.gallagher@qub.ac.uk>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <120421@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: zephyr-clients also fails to configure if old zhm is still running

Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:45:26 +0000

Package: zephyr-clients
Version: 2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-6
Followup-For: Bug #120421

Further to the above (and possibly related to #41419) zephyr-clients can
fail to configure if the old zhm is running. Does the install try to
stop any existing zhm processes on upgrade? If I stop zhm by hand
everything is fine:

banshee:~# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up zephyr-clients (2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-6) ...
Starting zephyr host manager: dpkg: error processing zephyr-clients
(--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 zephyr-clients

[ above repeated twice ]

banshee:~# /etc/init.d/zhm stop   
Stopping zephyr host manager: zhm.
banshee:~# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up zephyr-clients (2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-6) ...
Starting zephyr host manager: zhm.
banshee:~#

--

I have to admit though, that although this has happened to me several
times on different machines, other identical machines have had no
problem... (I am performing a belated mass upgrade from potato to woody
on my lab machines at the moment).

Surely a non-essential daemon failing to restart after configuration
should cause a warning, not a fatal error...?

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wolverine 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Versions of packages zephyr-clients depends on:
ii  debconf          1.0.32                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      1.16                    Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs [libco 1.27-2                  The EXT2 file system utilities and
ii  e2fsprogs [libss 1.27-2                  The EXT2 file system utilities and
ii  libares0         1.1.1-2                 asynchronous dns resolver library
ii  libc6            2.2.5-11.2              GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5      5.2.20020112a-7         Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline4     4.2a-5                  GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libxaw7          4.1.0-16                X Athena widget set library
ii  libzephyr3       2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-6 The original "Instant Message" sys
ii  xlibs            4.1.0-16                X Window System client libraries

Message #20 received at 120421-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Karl Ramm <kcr@debian.org>

To: 120421-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#120421: fixed in zephyr 2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18

Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:02:09 +0000

Source: zephyr
Source-Version: 2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
zephyr, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libzephyr-dev_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
  to pool/main/z/zephyr/libzephyr-dev_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
libzephyr3-krb_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
  to pool/main/z/zephyr/libzephyr3-krb_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
libzephyr3_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
  to pool/main/z/zephyr/libzephyr3_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
zephyr-clients_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
  to pool/main/z/zephyr/zephyr-clients_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
zephyr-server-krb_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
  to pool/main/z/zephyr/zephyr-server-krb_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
zephyr-server_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
  to pool/main/z/zephyr/zephyr-server_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
zephyr_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18.diff.gz
  to pool/main/z/zephyr/zephyr_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18.diff.gz
zephyr_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18.dsc
  to pool/main/z/zephyr/zephyr_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18.dsc



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 120421@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Karl Ramm <kcr@debian.org> (supplier of updated zephyr package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:31:53 -0400
Source: zephyr
Binary: zephyr-server libzephyr3 libzephyr3-krb zephyr-server-krb zephyr-clients libzephyr-dev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Karl Ramm <kcr@debian.org>
Changed-By: Karl Ramm <kcr@debian.org>
Description: 
 libzephyr-dev - The original "Instant Message" system development libraries
 libzephyr3 - The original "Instant Message" system libraries without Kerberos
 libzephyr3-krb - The original "Instant Message" system libraries with Kerberos
 zephyr-clients - The original "Instant Message" system client
 zephyr-server - The original "Instant Message" system-server without Kerberos
 zephyr-server-krb - The original "Instant Message" system-server with Kerberos
Closes: 120421 174535 395978 396775 404414 412802 413237 413876 414817 420839 433602 433953
Changes: 
 zephyr (2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * fix braino in postinst.  Closes: #433953
   * Don't mark internal use messages as translatable.  Closes: #413237
   * Galician translation.  Closes: #412802
   * Dutch translation.  Closes: #413876
   * Portugese translation.  Closes: #414817
   * Updates Spanish translatoin.  Closes: #420839
 .
   * Package supports using hesiod to find zephyr servers.  Closes: #174535
   * Package does not fail to configure if the daemon won't start.  Closes: #120421
   * zhm shouldn't hang for ever if it can't find a server on startup.  Closes: #433602
 .
   * remove DH_COMPAT setting and update substvars to placate lintian.
 .
 zephyr (2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-17.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload to fix l10n issues
   * Debconf translation updates:
     - German. Closes: #396775
     - French. Closes: #395978
     - Russian. Closes: #404414
Files: 
 c5fa4686e91410556e1684ca70240eb1 942 net optional zephyr_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18.dsc
 9c64a5ec5a6b288eece8390e5d078f3a 55883 net optional zephyr_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18.diff.gz
 10967eaa7a5ea35a14fc1ca91d03185c 25434 libs optional libzephyr3_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
 1ac0448dc7d13535932448c33668b5d4 26418 libs optional libzephyr3-krb_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
 4dc7fd537809787086c687ac782dc141 146272 net optional zephyr-clients_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
 784af951f15a0040e94ba6fb9ebe62a0 51480 net optional zephyr-server_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
 ff7bc166a98865b2b94961e8f5bb5b25 58826 net optional zephyr-server-krb_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb
 68ce31cbac182cae27ead5352fc5646d 35316 libdevel optional libzephyr-dev_2.1.20010518.SNAPSHOT-18_i386.deb

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