[Pkg-cacti-maint] Bug#704011: cacti: Fails to execute PHP SNMP query scripts

[Jaap Winius]

Package: cacti
Version: 0.8.8a+dfsg-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After performing an in-place upgrade on my server from Debian squeeze to wheezy, Cacti was no longer able to gather any data. I tried executing some of Cacti's PHP scripts separately, but they could retrieve no SNMP data.

In an attempt to find the cause of the problem, I downgraded php5-snmp 5.4.4 to 5.3.3. This fixed the problem: the scripts worked again and Cacti worked again. However, it results in a serious dependency problem, so is not really a solution.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cacti depends on:
ii  dbconfig-common                          1.8.47+nmu1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                    1.5.49
ii  libapache2-mod-php5                      5.4.4-14
ii  libphp-adodb                             5.15-1
ii  mysql-client-5.5 [virtual-mysql-client]  5.5.28+dfsg-1
ii  perl                                     5.14.2-20
ii  php5-cgi                                 5.4.4-14
ii  php5-cli                                 5.4.4-14
ii  php5-mysql                               5.4.4-14
ii  php5-snmp                                5.4.4-14
ii  rrdtool                                  1.4.7-2
ii  snmp                                     5.4.3~dfsg-2.7
ii  ucf                                      3.0025+nmu3

Versions of packages cacti recommends:
ii  apache2                      2.2.22-13
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd]  2.2.22-13
ii  iputils-ping                 3:20101006-1+b1
ii  libjs-jquery                 1.7.2+dfsg-1
ii  libjs-jquery-cookie          6-1
ii  logrotate                    3.8.1-4
ii  mysql-server                 5.5.28+dfsg-1

Versions of packages cacti suggests:
ii  moreutils  0.47
ii  php5-ldap  5.4.4-14

-- debconf information:
  cacti/password-confirm: (password omitted)
  cacti/app-password-confirm: (password omitted)
  cacti/mysql/admin-pass: (password omitted)
  cacti/mysql/app-pass: (password omitted)
* cacti/db/app-user: cacti
* cacti/mysql/admin-user: root
  cacti/upgrade-backup: true
  cacti/install-error: abort
* cacti/webserver: apache2
  cacti/internal/reconfiguring: false
* cacti/mysql/method: unix socket
  cacti/remote/host:
  cacti/upgrade-error: abort
  cacti/dbconfig-upgrade: true
  cacti/internal/skip-preseed: false
  cacti/remote/newhost:
  cacti/purge: false
  cacti/passwords-do-not-match:
  cacti/dbconfig-remove:
* cacti/dbconfig-install: true
  cacti/missing-db-package-error: abort
  cacti/database-type: mysql
  cacti/remove-error: abort
* cacti/db/dbname: cacti
  cacti/remote/port:
  cacti/dbconfig-reinstall: false