[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#708328: snmpd: On upgrade: "mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/run/agentx’: File exists"

[Vincent Bernat]

Package: snmpd
Version: 5.7.2~dfsg-3
Severity: important

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Dear Maintainer,

When upgrading snmpd from 5.4, I get this error:

Setting up snmpd (5.7.2~dfsg-3) ...
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/run/agentx’: File exists
dpkg: error processing snmpd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

/var/run/agentx is a symlink:

ls -l /var/run/agentx
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 mai   15 08:47 /var/run/agentx -> /var/agentx/master

Also, I fail to understand why it should be changed to a
directory. This may break software expecting to find the socket in
/var/run/agentx.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages snmpd depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.50
ii  libc6                  2.17-2
ii  libmysqlclient18       5.5.31+dfsg-1
ii  libsnmp-base           5.7.2~dfsg-3
ii  libsnmp30              5.7.2~dfsg-3
ii  libwrap0               7.6.q-24
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian9
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

snmpd recommends no packages.

snmpd suggests no packages.

- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf'
/etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf'

- -- debconf information:
  snmpd/upgradefrom521:

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