[Pkg-roundcube-maintainers] Bug#870479: Installation of roundcube fails with Maria DB

[Sandro Knauß]

Hey,

actually I think the problem is not roundcube itself, but dbconfig-common 
package that is responsible for the whole database creation, update and 
removal. As far as i look, roundcube does not set wired settings:

roundcube.config:

if [ -f /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/config ]; then
        dbc_dbtypes="mysql, pgsql, sqlite3"
        dbc_authmethod_user="password"
        . /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/config·
        dbc_go roundcube $@
fi

added to prerm and postrm and on postinst there some settings:

. /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/postinst                                         
dbc_generate_include=php:/etc/roundcube/debian-db.php                              
dbc_generate_include_owner="root:www-data"                                         
dbc_generate_include_perms="640"                                                   
dbc_dbfile_owner="www-data:www-data"                                               
dbc_dbfile_perms="0660"   
dbc_dbuser=roundcube      
dbc_dbname=roundcube      
dbc_go roundcube $@

can this be the problem, that the postinst part must be secured with a 

if [ -f /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/postinst ]; then 
fi

block?

Best Regards,

sandro

@Paul Gevers: the problem is that there are some annoying questions about 
user/password for mariadb instead of just using the unix socket. Maybe you can 
check, that roundcube is using dbconfig correctly :) I'm a little bit lost 
because dbconfig was just working :)

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On Montag, 21. August 2017 09:21:30 CEST Karsten wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 21.08.2017 um 01:55 schrieb Sandro Knauß:
> > Control: tags -1 +unreproducible
> > Hey,
> > 
> > for the new version 1.3.0 I actually needed to made some tests so I tested
> > this bug too, but couldn't reproduce it.
> > 
> > I set up a new virtualbox image (vagrant init debian/stretch64) and
> > installed apache and mariadb:
> > apt install -y apache2 mariadb-server
> > 
> > after that I run:
> > apt install roundcube roundcube-mysql
> > 
> > and I had not to enter any password. Well the installation asks for a
> > password to register to the database server, but you leave it bank to
> > create a random one, that is also written aboth the text field. After
> > leave this empty and hitting enter the installation was done and I ended
> > up with a configured roundcube instance like expected.
> 
> I am not sure if this fits to my conditions.
> It is possible that a root password was set, but it is not needed.
> Now i have added an additional account for the administration.
> 
> After so much days i can't remember why it didn't work afterwards, sorry.
> But roundcube could not be used instantly.
> 
> Roundcube should be unpacked at this time, only the configuration is missing
> - correct? With the original installation procedure i didn't run into a
> similar problem.
> > Or are you annoyed by the fact it asks for a password and user?
> 
> This is annoying because it is not clear what to do at this point.
> 
> Best regards
> Karsten
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