[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#317646: nagios-common fails to install on a (more or less) clean system

[Gunther Stammwitz]

Package: nagios-common
Version: 1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1
Severity: important


# removing the packages..
apt-get remove nagios-text nagios-plugins nagios-common
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  nagios-common nagios-plugins nagios-text
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0B of archives.
  After unpacking 7025kB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
  (Reading database ... 43264 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing nagios-text ...
  Removing nagios-plugins ...
  Removing nagios-common ...
  Reloading apache configuration.
# now we have a clean system
  off:/etc# rm -rf /etc/nagios      
  
# and REinstall nagios...

  off:/etc# apt-get install nagios-text nagios-plugins nagios-common      
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    nagios-common nagios-plugins nagios-text
    0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 352kB/2473kB of archives.
    After unpacking 7025kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Get:1 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main nagios-plugins 1.4-6 [352kB]
    Fetched 352kB in 2s (157kB/s)          
    Preconfiguring packages ...
    Selecting previously deselected package nagios-text.
    (Reading database ... 42860 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking nagios-text (from .../nagios-text_2%3a1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1_i386.deb) ...
    Selecting previously deselected package nagios-plugins.
    Unpacking nagios-plugins (from .../nagios-plugins_1.4-6_i386.deb) ...
    Selecting previously deselected package nagios-common.
    Unpacking nagios-common (from .../nagios-common_2%3a1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1_all.deb) ...
    Setting up nagios-plugins (1.4-6) ...
    
    Setting up nagios-text (1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1) ...
    
    Setting up nagios-common (1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1) ...
    Configuration syntax error detected. Not reloading.
    
    fopen: No such file or directory
    apache: could not open document config file /etc/apache/conf.d/nagios
    invoke-rc.d: initscript apache, action "reload" failed.
    Adding password for user nagiosadmin
    Can't open /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg: No such file or directory.
    chmod: cannot access `/etc/nagios/cgi.cfg': No such file or directory
    chmod: cannot access `/etc/nagios/resource.cfg': No such file or directory
    dpkg: error processing nagios-common (--configure):
     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
     Errors were encountered while processing:
      nagios-common
      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

# as one can see nagios doesn't install.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-k6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages nagios-common depends on:
ii  adduser          3.63                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache [httpd]   1.3.33-6                versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii  coreutils [fileu 5.2.1-2                 The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.30.13               Debian configuration management sy
ii  fileutils        5.2.1-2                 The GNU file management utilities 
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent
pn  nagios                                   Not found.
pn  nagios-plugins                           Not found.