[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#606784: snmptrapfmt: package fails to upgrade properly from lenny

[Julien Cristau]

severity 606784 normal
kthxbye

So there's two issues here.

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 18:48:34 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> While testing the installation of all packages in squeeze, I ran
> into the following problem:
> 
[...]
> > SETTING UP SNMPTRAPFMT (1.13) ...
> > RESTARTING NETWORK MANAGEMENT SERVICES: SNMPD.

lenny's version of snmptrapfmt.postinst calls
  /etc/init.d/snmpd restart
which doesn't go through policy-rc.d.  This is fixed in 1.14 AFAICT.

[...]
> > Setting up snmpd (5.4.3~dfsg-1) ...
> > Installing new version of config file /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf ...
> > Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/snmpd ...
> > Installing new version of config file /etc/default/snmpd ...
> > userdel: user snmp is currently logged in
> > /usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel snmp' returned error code 8. Exiting.
> > dpkg: error processing snmpd (--configure):
> > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

And the second one is snmpd trying to remove its system user.  Which I
think is a bug, but not a RC one.

Cheers,
Julien
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