[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#708335: snmpd: Fails to install in post-installation stage

[Hilmar Preuße]

Package: snmpd
Version: 5.7.2~dfsg-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

I submit that bug as grave as I think it affects all users. If not feel free
to downgrade.

Today I upgraded from snmpd 5.4.3~dfsg-3 to 5.7.2~dfsg-3. The installation
fails in postin stage:

Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/snmpd ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/default/snmpd ...
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/run/agentx': File exists
dpkg: error processing snmpd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

This is reproducible:

sid:~# dpkg --configure snmpd
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
Errors were encountered while processing:
 snmpd

That file indeed does exist and is a soft link to a non-existing dir/file:

hille at sid:~ $ ls -l /var/run/agentx
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 May 15 09:24 /var/run/agentx -> /var/agentx/master
hille at sid:~ $ ls -l /var/agentx/master
ls: cannot access /var/agentx/master: No such file or directory

As that link has a time stamp of today I guess it was created during upgrade
of libsnmp-base I've done before.

Hilmar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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 changed [not included]
/etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf'

-- debconf information:
  snmpd/upgradefrom521: