Debian Bug report logs - #487568
After upgrade from 3.2.9-3 to 3.2.9-4 Motion doesn't work anymore

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

From: ArAge <ArAge@gmx.co.uk>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: After upgrade from 3.2.9-3 to 3.2.9-4 Motion doesn't work anymore

Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:37:14 +0200

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Package: motion
Version: 3.2.9-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

After upgrading Motion to the latest version with aptitude Motion didn't start.
In syslog I got the following messages:

---cut---
Jun 22 10:54:22 debian motion: [0] Not config file to process using default values
Jun 22 10:54:22 debian motion: [0] Motion 3.2.9 Started
Jun 22 10:54:22 debian motion: [0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3355136 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3409664
Jun 22 10:54:22 debian motion: [1] Thread 1 started
Jun 22 10:54:22 debian motion: [1] Failed to open video device /dev/video0: No such file or director
Jun 22 10:54:22 debian motion: [1] Capture error calling vid_start
---cut---

I noticed that the permissions of /etc/motion/motion.conf were changed (no GROUP & OTHER rights).
Simply a chmod 644 motion.conf did the trick...

Btw please change "Not config file ..." into "No config file ..." (see syslog messages above).

Regards,
ArAge


-- 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/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages motion depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.108           add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.22          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libavcodec51             0.svn20080206-8 ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat52            0.svn20080206-8 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49              0.svn20080206-8 ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                    2.7-10          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libjpeg62                6b-14           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii  libmysqlclient15off      5.0.51a-6       MySQL database client library
ii  libpq5                   8.3.1-2+b1      PostgreSQL C client library

Versions of packages motion recommends:
ii  ffmpeg                   0.svn20080206-8 multimedia player, server and enco

-- debconf information:
  motion/moved_conf_dir:

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Message #10 received at 487568@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>

To: 487568@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Messing with config file permissions will bite you in the ass.....

Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:26:40 +0200

This bug (487568) is related to #484570, where people argued against
having world-readable configuration files. This was "fixed" in version
3.2.9-3 so the problem must have occured there already (against what the
original report says).

The debian/motion.postinst file contains chmod
0600 /etc/motion/motion.conf. As the file is owned by root:root, the
problem likely occurs when motion drops privilegies to motion:motion
(but I haven't investigated further).
One solution would possibly be to change to chmod 0640 and chgrp to
motion.

Another note about the postinst file, it creates /var/run/motion and
sets up permissions and prepares stuff in the "create_pid_dir" function.
Looks alot like someone didn't think about /var/run being on tmpfs and
even if it's not, it's still wiped every reboot AFAIK?! The startup
script of motion needs to handle this.


-- 
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson

Message #15 received at 487568-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Juan Angulo Moreno <juan@apuntale.com>

To: 487568-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#487568: fixed in motion 3.2.9-5

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:02:05 +0000

Source: motion
Source-Version: 3.2.9-5

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

motion_3.2.9-5.diff.gz
  to pool/main/m/motion/motion_3.2.9-5.diff.gz
motion_3.2.9-5.dsc
  to pool/main/m/motion/motion_3.2.9-5.dsc
motion_3.2.9-5_i386.deb
  to pool/main/m/motion/motion_3.2.9-5_i386.deb



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 487568@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Juan Angulo Moreno <juan@apuntale.com> (supplier of updated motion package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:01:42 -0430
Source: motion
Binary: motion
Architecture: source i386
Version: 3.2.9-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Juan Angulo Moreno <juan@apuntale.com>
Changed-By: Juan Angulo Moreno <juan@apuntale.com>
Description: 
 motion     - V4L capture program supporting motion detection
Closes: 487568
Changes: 
 motion (3.2.9-5) unstable; urgency=low
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Message #20 received at 487568@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org>

To: debian-release@lists.debian.org

Cc: 487568@bugs.debian.org

Subject: give back request: motion_3.2.9-7_hppa

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:27:27 +1100

d-r,

It would appear that RC #487568 is being held out of lenny by the lack of the 
hppa build which was last successful on 14 Oct, but still hasn't been 
installed.

Request a give back of motion_3.2.9-7_hppa

Thanks,
Mark

Message #25 received at 487568@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>

To: Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org>

Cc: debian-release@lists.debian.org, 487568@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: give back request: motion_3.2.9-7_hppa

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:22:58 +0100

* Mark Purcell [Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:27:27 +1100]:

> d-r,

> It would appear that RC #487568 is being held out of lenny by the lack of the 
> hppa build which was last successful on 14 Oct, but still hasn't been 
> installed.

> Request a give back of motion_3.2.9-7_hppa

Done.

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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