Bug#699744: nagios3-cgi: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user: /etc/nagios3/stylesheets/outages.css

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi,

I agree with Andreas Beckmann it would be useful if a remark could be
added to the release notes. I can apply a patch soon. Below snippets
from previous discussion summarize the relevant parts I believe.
Anybody willing to draft a patch?

Thanks, Bye,

Joost

Bug #689836: dpkg: md5sums incorrectly recorded for conffile takeover
http://bugs.debian.org/689836
So it's broken in squeeze (dpkg database is corrupted, i.e. contains the wrong
md5sums (well, it contains the correct md5sums, too, but at the wrong
place)). Whether this happens depends on the configuration order. If
nagios-doc is configured before nagios3-cgi it will record the new md5sum for
updated conffiles for nagios3-doc instead of nagios-cgi ... even if it no
longer owns these files.
I have no idea how many packages are possibly affected by this or how this can
be fixed ... therefore Cc:ing Guillem.
# apt-get install --reinstall nagios3-cgi

[...]

Great, that FIXED the DB.

Right, it should just be either a matter of time, once every problematic
package has been upgraded after getting a fixed dpkg, or people actively
reinstalling broken packages. In any case, for wheezy I guess it would
be nice to strongly recommend on the release notes to upgrade dpkg first.

Based on the bug discussion, I believe this bug against nagios3-cgi should
be closed. The problem is with the dpkg database, and it doesn't sound
like there's anything the package needs to (or should do) to deal with
that issue; it's fixed by either dealing with the prompt during upgrade or
reinstalling the package.

agreed, so I'll close this bug now.

Shouldn't this be mentioned in the release-notes?
apt-get install --reinstall *before* the upgrade is an easy workaround -
if we make people aware of it.
Andreas

[Antoine Beaupre]

Post by Joost van Baal-Ilić
Hi,
I agree with Andreas Beckmann it would be useful if a remark could be
added to the release notes. I can apply a patch soon. Below snippets
from previous discussion summarize the relevant parts I believe.
Anybody willing to draft a patch?

This bug has been inactive for more than 4 years, and wheezy is now LTS.

Is this still relevant, or should we just close this bug already?

A.

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Post by Antoine Beaupre

Post by Joost van Baal-Ilić
Hi,
I agree with Andreas Beckmann it would be useful if a remark could be
added to the release notes. I can apply a patch soon. Below snippets
from previous discussion summarize the relevant parts I believe.
Anybody willing to draft a patch?

This bug has been inactive for more than 4 years, and wheezy is now LTS.
Is this still relevant, or should we just close this bug already?

Could better be closed, imho. Just doing that now. Thanks for triaging!

Bye,

Joost

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