Bug#793757: sasl2-bin: The /etc/sasldb2 file could not be upgraded to the new database format

Tue Sep 1 10:50:20 UTC 2015

Hi,

it looks like a partial upgrade[*] since db-util from jessie depends on
db5.3-util.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/db-util

* - or sasl2-bin got upgraded before db-util. Unfortunately I am not
sure how to enforce the db5.3-util pull earlier without explicitly
mangling all the reverse dependencies (for now).

The good news though is that this is the last Berkeley DB upgrade ever
since Oracle has changed the license to AGPL since 6.0 and made it
incompatible with a lot of software that Debian carries

Cheers,
Ondrej

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015, at 09:52, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> Package: sasl2-bin
> Version: 2.1.26.dfsg1-13
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello Roberto,
> 
> I'm upgrading from wheezy to jessie with sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. That
> failed with the following error message:
> 
> Configuring sasl2-bin
> ---------------------
> 
> Failed to upgrade /etc/sasldb2
> 
> The /etc/sasldb2 file could not be upgraded to the new database format.
> 
> This is a fatal error and will cause the package installation to fail.
> 
> The configuration process will attempt to restore the backup of this file
> to its
> original location.
> 
> Please eliminate all possible reasons that might lead to this failure,
> then try
> to configure this package again.
> 
> After reading #716723, I've tried re-creating the database from scratch:
> 
> sudo db4.6_dump /etc/sasldb2 >sasldb2.dump
> sudo rm /etc/sasldb2
> sudo db5.1_load /etc/sasldb2 <sasldb2.dump
> sudo chgrp sasl /etc/sasldb2
> sudo chmod 660 /etc/sasldb2
> 
> That didn't help, sudo apt-get -f install still failed.
> 
> Then I added #!/bin/sh -x to /var/lib/dpkg/info/sasl2-bin.postinst and
> ran sudo
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/sasl2-bin.postinst configure 2.1.25.dfsg1-6+deb7u1.
> That
> resulted, among others, in the following:
> 
> + db5.3_upgrade /etc/sasldb2
> + db_input high cyrus-sasl2/upgrade-sasldb2-failed
> 
> Running sudo db5.3_upgrade /etc/sasldb2 manually resulted in:
> sudo: db5.3_upgrade: command not found
> 
> So, I've installed db5.3-util, and postinst worked fine.
> 
> I think if the package explicitly calls db5.3_upgrade, it should depend
> on
> db5.3-util, or otherwise ensure db5.3_upgrade is present. In my case, the
> following packages were installed:
> 
> ii  db-util                                   5.1.6                    
> all
> ii  db4.6-util                                4.6.21-16                
> i386
> ii  db5.1-util                                5.1.29-9                 
> i386
> ii  libdb2                                    2:2.7.7.0-9              
> i386
> ii  libdb3                                    3.2.9+dfsg-0.1           
> i386
> ii  libdb3-util                               3.2.9+dfsg-0.1           
> i386
> ii  libdb4.3                                  4.3.29-8                 
> i386
> ii  libdb4.5                                  4.5.20-13                
> i386
> ii  libdb4.6                                  4.6.21-16                
> i386
> ii  libdb4.8                                  4.8.30-2                 
> i386
> rc  libdb5.1:i386                             5.1.29-5                 
> i386
> ii  libdb5.3:i386                             5.3.28-9                 
> i386
> 
> The dependencies are satisfied, but db5.3-util is missing.
> 
> With kind regards,
> Baurzhan.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.1
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (700, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages sasl2-bin depends on:
> ii  db-util                5.1.6
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.56
> ii  libc6                  2.19-18
> ii  libcomerr2             1.42.12-1.1
> ii  libdb5.3               5.3.28-9
> ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.12.1+dfsg-19
> ii  libk5crypto3           1.12.1+dfsg-19
> ii  libkrb5-3              1.12.1+dfsg-19
> ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.40+dfsg-1
> ii  libpam0g               1.1.8-3.1
> ii  libsasl2-2             2.1.26.dfsg1-13
> ii  libssl1.0.0            1.0.1k-3
> 
> sasl2-bin recommends no packages.
> 
> sasl2-bin suggests no packages.
> 
> -- debconf information:
> * cyrus-sasl2/upgrade-sasldb2-failed:
>   cyrus-sasl2/upgrade-sasldb2-backup-failed:
>   cyrus-sasl2/backup-sasldb2: /var/backups/sasldb2.bak
>   cyrus-sasl2/purge-sasldb2: false
> 
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