Bug#716723: sasl2-bin: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 05:36:05PM +0100, Johannes Schlumberger wrote:
> Hi Roberto,
> thank you for looking into this. I will send you a link to the sasldb2 file in a
> personal separate email for you investigation (would you please provide me with
> an address?). Please keep the contents of this file private. You may share the
> contents and the file with other package maintainers or who else you see fit to
> work on this bug, provided they also keep it private.

Johannes,

I believe that I have figured out the problem.

It appears that you created the sasldb2 file on a big endian machine and
then later moved it to a little endian machine.  This causes the upgrade
to fail.

Here is what happens on my amd64 system:

roberto at miami:/var/lib/chroot/squeeze/etc$ sudo db5.1_upgrade sasldb2 
db5.1_upgrade: sasldb2: DB->upgrade only supported on native byte-order systems
db5.1_upgrade: DB->upgrade: sasldb2: Invalid argument
roberto at miami:/var/lib/chroot/squeeze/etc$ file sasldb2 
sasldb2: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 8, big-endian)

I temporarily transferred the file over to a PowerPC porterbox, and here
is what happens:

(sid_powerpc-dchroot)roberto at partch:~$ db5.1_upgrade sasldb2 
(sid_powerpc-dchroot)roberto at partch:~$ logout
roberto at partch:~$ file sasldb2 
sasldb2: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 9, native byte-order)

Based on this, I believe that this is not a bug in the sasl2-bin
package.  I believe that you can correct this by dumping the contents
using the db4.8_dump command and then recreating the database on your
system.

If you agree, I would like to close this bug report.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
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