[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#920339: matrix-synapse: installation process hangs with unknown reason

[Axel Beckert]

Control: notfound -1 0.99.2-5~bpo9+1
Control: found -1 0.99.2-5

Hi Andrej,

Andrej Shadura wrote:
> > Still exists in the recent version. It seems that the server is spawned and
> > disowned, and the configure script waits forever for some return value which never
> > comes.
> 
> I tried to reproduce it with sysvinit and still failed :(

I just was able to reproduce it by installing matrix-synapse on a
Raspberry Pi running Debian Sid with sysvinit as init system and it
hangs at the configuration stage after "Config is missing
macaroon_secret_key". (This warning is though a red herring as
upstream withholds the fact that it will automatically generate a key
in this case.)

While the system has quite some other stuff already installed, I did
nothing else than answering the two debconf questions and answering
them with the systems FQDN and "no". I also installed most if not all of the
recommended and some of the suggested python modules. (Can lookup the
exact list if wanted.)

It now hangs there for about an hour.

With backports (with sysvinit, too) I actually don't have this kind of
issue but a different one:

Setting up matrix-synapse (0.99.2-5~bpo9+1) ...
[FAIL] TLS certificate file /etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.tls.crt not found ... failed!

I diffed the 0.99.2-5 and 0.99.2-5~bpo9+1 source packages and found
nothing which would explain this difference, so I assume the
differences is probably somewhere in the dependencies. (Might file a
separate bug report for that one later.)

Currently trying to figure out _why_ it hangs on Buster/Sid.

		Regards, Axel
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