[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#453123: Bug#453123: snmpd: Upgrade fails even on Debian Etch

[Jochen Friedrich]

Hi Matthias,

> If snmpd is running, then the foillowing error occurs:
> 
> Starting network management services:invoke-rc.d: initscript snmpd,
> action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing snmpd (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  snmpd
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> If snmpd ist not running, the "aptitude upgrade" process hangs forever.

This is the same as Bug #391203. The bug is in snmptrapd which doesn't
close its file handles. Unfortunately, the fix didn't make it into etch,
but the version in lenny is fixed.

Thanks,
Jochen