[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#500717: snmpd reports assert in syslog and does not return data

[Thomas Anders]

Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote:
> Since upgrading from etch (stable) to testing, snmpd is reporting this in syslog:
> Sep 30 06:25:22 quark snmpd[4507]: netsnmp_assert rc == 0 failed if-mib/ifTable/ifTable_data_access.c:210 _check_interface_entry_for_updates()
> [...]
> If you think the libc6 or kernel below looks strange, that's because this is a xen dom0 and it uses

This is a known bug, only triggered with Xen, with a known fix. See
upstream changeset  r16790:

http://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/net-snmp?view=rev&revision=16790

This change probably needs to be applied to the lenny package to fix the
problem in question.


+Thomas