[Syslog-ng-maintainers] Bug#844372: Installing/updating to syslog-ng 3.8.1-5 broken in Debian Testing

VDR User user.vdr at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 00:30:05 GMT 2016


Package: syslog-ng
Version: 3.8.1-5

I tried upgrading syslog-ng and it failed. I then tried installing it
cleanly on a different box and that failed as well. Both systems are
running Debian Testing, stable kernels 4.8.6 and 4.8.7, libc 2.24-5.

It seems this problem has happened before with an earlier version as well:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833283

$ sudo apt-get install syslog-ng
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libbson-1.0-0 libdbi1 libesmtp6 libevtlog0 libhiredis0.13 libivykis0
libmongoc-1.0-0 libnet1 libprotobuf-c1 librabbitmq4 libriemann-client0
libyajl2
  syslog-ng-core syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data syslog-ng-mod-amqp
syslog-ng-mod-geoip syslog-ng-mod-graphite syslog-ng-mod-journal
syslog-ng-mod-json
  syslog-ng-mod-mongodb syslog-ng-mod-python syslog-ng-mod-redis
syslog-ng-mod-riemann syslog-ng-mod-smtp syslog-ng-mod-sql
syslog-ng-mod-stomp
Suggested packages:
  rabbitmq-server graphite-web mongodb-server libdbd-mysql
libdbd-pgsql libdbd-sqlite3 activemq
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libbson-1.0-0 libdbi1 libesmtp6 libevtlog0 libhiredis0.13 libivykis0
libmongoc-1.0-0 libnet1 libprotobuf-c1 librabbitmq4 libriemann-client0
libyajl2
  syslog-ng syslog-ng-core syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
syslog-ng-mod-amqp syslog-ng-mod-geoip syslog-ng-mod-graphite
syslog-ng-mod-journal
  syslog-ng-mod-json syslog-ng-mod-mongodb syslog-ng-mod-python
syslog-ng-mod-redis syslog-ng-mod-riemann syslog-ng-mod-smtp
syslog-ng-mod-sql
  syslog-ng-mod-stomp
0 upgraded, 27 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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libriemann-client0 i386 1.9.1-1 [20.7 kB]
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syslog-ng-mod-sql i386 3.8.1-5 [45.1 kB]
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syslog-ng-mod-mongodb i386 3.8.1-5 [43.0 kB]
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syslog-ng-mod-json i386 3.8.1-5 [38.9 kB]
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syslog-ng all 3.8.1-5 [26.1 kB]
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syslog-ng-mod-geoip i386 3.8.1-5 [34.4 kB]
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syslog-ng-mod-graphite i386 3.8.1-5 [29.9 kB]
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syslog-ng-mod-python i386 3.8.1-5 [52.4 kB]
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syslog-ng-mod-redis i386 3.8.1-5 [36.0 kB]
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syslog-ng-mod-riemann i386 3.8.1-5 [39.0 kB]
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syslog-ng-mod-smtp i386 3.8.1-5 [39.0 kB]
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Created symlink
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/syslog-ng.service →
/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service.
Job for syslog-ng.service failed because the control process exited
with error code.
See "systemctl status syslog-ng.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript syslog-ng, action "start" failed.
● syslog-ng.service - System Logger Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Mon
2016-11-14 16:22:27 PST; 11ms ago
     Docs: man:syslog-ng(8)
  Process: 14807 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F $SYSLOGNG_OPTS
(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 14807 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Status: "Starting up... (Mon Nov 14 16:22:27 2016"

Nov 14 16:22:27 Orion systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logger Daemon.
Nov 14 16:22:27 Orion systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 14 16:22:27 Orion systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service: Failed with
result 'exit-code'.
dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-core (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-redis:
 syslog-ng-mod-redis depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-redis (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-python:
 syslog-ng-mod-python depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-python (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-smtp:
 syslog-ng-mod-smtp depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-smtp (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-geoip:
 syslog-ng-mod-geoip depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-geoip (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-amqp:
 syslog-ng-mod-amqp depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-amqp (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-sql:
 syslog-ng-mod-sql depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-sql (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-json:
 syslog-ng-mod-json depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-json (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng:
 syslog-ng depends on syslog-ng-core (>= 3.8.1); however:
  Package syslog-ng-core is not configured yet.
 syslog-ng depends on syslog-ng-mod-sql; however:
  Package syslog-ng-mod-sql is not configured yet.
 syslog-ng depends on syslog-ng-mod-json; however:
  Package syslog-ng-mod-json is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-stomp:
 syslog-ng-mod-stomp depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-stomp (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-mongodb:
 syslog-ng-mod-mongodb depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-mongodb (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data:
 syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-graphite:
 syslog-ng-mod-graphite depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-graphite (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-riemann:
 syslog-ng-mod-riemann depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
  Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
  Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-riemann (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-5) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (231-9) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 syslog-ng-core
 syslog-ng-mod-redis
 syslog-ng-mod-python
 syslog-ng-mod-smtp
 syslog-ng-mod-geoip
 syslog-ng-mod-amqp
 syslog-ng-mod-sql
 syslog-ng-mod-json
 syslog-ng
 syslog-ng-mod-stomp
 syslog-ng-mod-mongodb
 syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
 syslog-ng-mod-graphite
 syslog-ng-mod-riemann
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




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