fai 2.8.4 / cfengine scripts segfaults

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 11:31:16PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > > Are you by chance using the version from the version from the testing
> > > distribution (1.6.5-2)? As I got the errors too, but only on some of my hosts, I
> > > tried the version from stable (1.6.5-1), and this solved the problem for me!
> > 
> > What first confused me was that packages.debian.org still lists 1.6.5-1
> > for stable, and 1.6.5-2 for testing - which isn't true (I installed a pure
> > sarge system, and got 1.6.5-2 during the fai run. Had to manually downgrade
> > to 1.6.5-1 since fai installs would fail with 1.6.5-2 --- so the problem
> > isn't limited to softupgrades :-((( )
> 
> I'm sorry, but I think something has gone wrong at your site -- I'm running
> Debian/Sarge systems and they do not have 1.6.5-2, but instead stayed at
> 1.6.5-1. Please double-check your sources.list or the contents of your logfiles,
> where 1.6.5-2 got installed!

Hmmm. I'm using an intermediate debmirror for those tasks. 
On my desktop machine (which is still wasting bandwidth by querying 
ftp.fu-berlin.de), 1.6.5-1 would be shown by apt-cache showpkg cfengine, 
but the machines using the miror would report
 1.6.5-2(/var/lib/apt/lists/faiserv1_i_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)

This is somewhat strange. The mirror synchronizes with ftp2.de.debian.org,
and (of course) keeps not only sarge but testing and unstable as well.

Looking into the mirror's repository I find

phobos:/data/debian/mirror-i386/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386# grep cfengine Packages
Package: cfengine
Suggests: cfengine-doc
Filename: pool/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-2_i386.deb

This is puzzling... looking deeper into it:

phobos:/data/debian/mirror-i386/debian# grep /cfengine_1 */*/*/*/Packages
dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages:Filename: pool/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-2_i386.deb
dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Packages:Filename: pool/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-2_i386.deb
dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages:Filename: pool/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-2_i386.deb
dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages:Filename: pool/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1_i386.deb
dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages:Filename: pool/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-2_i386.deb
dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages:Filename: pool/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-2_i386.deb

Huh? Why does stable show -1, while sarge lists -2?

Have to investigate. 
Looks like I invited a lot of trouble - I guess this wouldn't be the only 
problem :-(((

Steffen

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