Debian Bug report logs - #631398
aide: Broken 'Error in expression' message

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

From: Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>

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

Subject: aideinit fails: Error in expression

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:09:09 -0400

Package: aide
Version: 0.15.1-2
Severity: important

I cannot initialize the aide database on a fresh Squeeze build.
Running "aideinit" results in lines like the following:

Running aide --init...
471:Error in expression:�Qe
Configuration error
AIDE --init return code 17

The characters that follow "Eror in expression" change from run to
run, though they always seem to start with that inverse-text
questionmark symbol.  That text does not appear in
/var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated, nor does there appear to be any
special unicode character on line 471.

Since I'm not seeing lots of bug reports on a completely broken AIDE,
I can only assume there's something odd in my environment causing it,
but it persists even after I remove all of my custom rulesets in
aide.conf.d and forcibly remove
/var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated.  It happens on both i386 and
amd64 Squeeze boxes.  The version in Lenny (0.13.1-10) works fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (350, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aide depends on:
ii  aide-common        0.15.1-2              Advanced Intrusion Detection Envir
ii  bsd-mailx          8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent
ii  liblockfile1       1.08-4                NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii  ucf                3.0025+nmu1           Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages aide recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon

aide suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 631398@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>

To: Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>, 631398@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#631398: aideinit fails: Error in expression

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:58:00 +0200

tags 631398 moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:09:09AM -0400, Zed Pobre wrote:
> I cannot initialize the aide database on a fresh Squeeze build.
> Running "aideinit" results in lines like the following:
> 
> Running aide --init...
> 471:Error in expression:�Qe
> Configuration error
> AIDE --init return code 17
> 
> The characters that follow "Eror in expression" change from run to
> run, though they always seem to start with that inverse-text
> questionmark symbol.  That text does not appear in
> /var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated, nor does there appear to be any
> special unicode character on line 471.

The wrong expression output is caused by a upstream bug which has
been fixed[0] in aide 0.16a1.

Could you please send me the content of the lines 469 to 473 in
/var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated ?

Thanks

Hannes

[0] http://aide.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=aide/aide;a=commit;h=5075146a25392a364f5ea248ff8d05b480a2d447

Message #17 received at 631398@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org>

To: Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>

Cc: 631398@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#631398: aideinit fails: Error in expression

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:23:06 -0400

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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:58:00PM +0200, Hannes von Haugwitz wrote:
>
> The wrong expression output is caused by a upstream bug which has
> been fixed[0] in aide 0.16a1.
>
> Could you please send me the content of the lines 469 to 473 in
> /var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated ?

!/@@{ROOTPREFIX}tmp/krb5cc_[0-9]+_[[:alnum:]]+$
/@@{ROOTPREFIX}var/lib/krb5kdc/principal$ VarFile+s+b+i
/@@{ROOTPREFIX}var/lib/krb5kdc/principal\.ok$ VarTime

/@@{ROOTPREFIX}var/run/laptop-mode-tools/(state|enabled|start-stop-undo-actions)$ VarFile


Regards,

--
Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org> a.k.a. Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>
PGP key and fingerprint available on finger; encrypted mail welcomed.

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Message #22 received at 631398@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>

To: Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org>

Cc: 631398@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#631398: aideinit fails: Error in expression

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:50:26 +0200

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:23:06PM -0400, Zed Pobre wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:58:00PM +0200, Hannes von Haugwitz wrote:
> > Could you please send me the content of the lines 469 to 473 in
> > /var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated ?
> 
> !/@@{ROOTPREFIX}tmp/krb5cc_[0-9]+_[[:alnum:]]+$
> /@@{ROOTPREFIX}var/lib/krb5kdc/principal$ VarFile+s+b+i
> /@@{ROOTPREFIX}var/lib/krb5kdc/principal\.ok$ VarTime
> 
> /@@{ROOTPREFIX}var/run/laptop-mode-tools/(state|enabled|start-stop-undo-actions)$ VarFile

Is the VarTime group defined before line 471 respectively in
/etc/aide/aide.conf ?

Greetings

Hannes

Message #27 received at 631398@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org>

To: Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>

Cc: 631398@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#631398: aideinit fails: Error in expression

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:32:04 -0400

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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:50:26PM +0200, Hannes von Haugwitz wrote:
> 
> Is the VarTime group defined before line 471 respectively in
> /etc/aide/aide.conf ?

Bingo.  We'd brought forward our old aide.conf file from Lenny, and it
was missing VarTime, VarInode, VarDirTime, and VarDirInode.  Adding
those back in appears to allow initialization to go through.

That said, a somewhat more informative error message would definitely
have been nice.

Thanks,

-- 
Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org> a.k.a. Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>
PGP key and fingerprint available on finger; encrypted mail welcomed.

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Message #42 received at 631398-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>

To: 631398-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#631398: fixed in aide 0.15.1-6

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:02:16 +0000

Source: aide
Source-Version: 0.15.1-6

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

aide-common_0.15.1-6_all.deb
  to main/a/aide/aide-common_0.15.1-6_all.deb
aide-dynamic_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb
  to main/a/aide/aide-dynamic_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb
aide-xen_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb
  to main/a/aide/aide-xen_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb
aide_0.15.1-6.debian.tar.gz
  to main/a/aide/aide_0.15.1-6.debian.tar.gz
aide_0.15.1-6.dsc
  to main/a/aide/aide_0.15.1-6.dsc
aide_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb
  to main/a/aide/aide_0.15.1-6_amd64.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 631398@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com> (supplier of updated aide 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: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:46:28 +0200
Source: aide
Binary: aide aide-xen aide-dynamic aide-common
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 0.15.1-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Aide Maintainers <pkg-aide-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>
Description: 
 aide       - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary
 aide-common - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - Common files
 aide-dynamic - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - dynamic binary
 aide-xen   - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary for XEN
Closes: 545852 631398
Changes: 
 aide (0.15.1-6) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * lowered dependency on aide-common (closes: #545852):
     - aide, aide-xen, aide-dynamic:
       - moved aide-common from Depends to Recommends
       - added Breaks/Replaces: aide-common (<< 0.15.1-6)
     - moved aide.1 and aide.conf.5 from aide-common to binary packages
     - aide-common: replaced dependency on aide | aide-binary with
       versionised dependency on aide | aide-xen | aide-dynamic
   * debian/patches/06-conf_yacc.y_conftext_declaration_fix.dpatch: new
     - fixed broken 'Error in expression' message (closes: #631398)
   * 31_aide_lighttpd:
     - adjusted log file rules
   * 31_aide_postgresql:
     - handle moved pgstat.stat file
   * 31_aide_resolvconf:
     - extended rule for files in /@@{LIBINITRW}/resolvconf/interface/
   * 31_aide_cron-apt:
     - adjusted rule for files in mailchanges/
   * 31_aide_initramfs-tools: new
     - handle /@@{DEVDOT}initramfs
   * 31_aide_util-linux: new
     - handle utab file and mount dir
   * 31_aide_xdm: new
     - handle auth files
     - handle pid file
   * 31_aide_libvirt-bin:
     - handle .monitor files
     - handle /var/lib/libvirt
     - handle /@@{RUNLOCK}/libvirt-guests
     - handle /@@{RUN}/libvirt/uml-guest
   * 31_aide_laptop-mode-tools:
     - handle lock files
     - handle state-brightness-command and nolm-mountopts state file
   * 31_aide_munin,31_aide_munin-nodes:
     - /var/www/munin has been moved to /var/cache/munin/www
   * 70_aide_run:
     - handle /@@{RUNLOCK}/.ramfs
   * removed optional aide-config-zg2 package
   * debian/aide-common.prerm: removed (/usr/doc/ handling is obsolete)
   * Migrated to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format:
     - converted dpatch patches to quilt
     - use dh7 syntax
     - use dh-autoreconf
     - removed debian/aide_fixperms (not needed anymore)
     - removed build-dep on dpatch
     - set debian/compat to 7
     - build depend on debhelper >= 7.0.50~ and dh-autoreconf
   * debian/patches/07-db_file.c_missing_format_string_fix.patch: new
     - added missing format string in dofprintf calls
   * Switched to debhelper 9
     - set debian/compat to 9
     - build depend on debhelper >= 9
   * aide.conf.in:
     - added X group and use it instead of 'acl+xattrs+e2fsattrs_SELINUX_'
     - fixed typo in comment
     - removed I from HiSerMemberLog
   * Moved aide.conf.in back to aide.conf and adjusted debian/rules
   * debian/control:
     - removed build-dep on libgcrypt11-dev (not needed anymore)
     - adjusted URLs of Vcs-* fields
     - removed pointer to configuration from description of binary packages
     - bumped to Standards-Version 3.9.3 (no changes necessary)
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