aide chokes on UTF-8 characters in pathnames in config file

[Rainer Schöpf]

Binary package hint: aide

I have a device node with a UTF-8 character in its name, autogenerated by udev:

 /dev/input/by-id/usb-Microsoft_Microsoft_IntelliMouse®_Optical-mouse

The script /etc/aide/aide.conf.d/70_aide_dev writes a list of all paths under /dev to /var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated, including this path. aide complains when it encounters the line, printing

Errors produced (3 lines):
771:syntax error:Â
771:Error while reading configuration:Â
Configuration error

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 20 23:32:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: aide (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic-pae
SourcePackage: aide
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae i686
XsessionErrors: (gnome-panel:6752): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -12 and height 24

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Could you please test the package in this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur/+archive/testing

If it fixes the problem for you, I'll start the SRU procedures.

[Rainer Schöpf (rainer-schoepf)]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 at 17:28 -0000, Marc Deslauriers wrote:

 > Could you please test the package in this PPA:
 >
 > https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur/+archive/testing
 >
 > If it fixes the problem for you, I'll start the SRU procedures.

Yes, it fixes the problem... for now. I wonder what will happen if other utf-8
characters appear in the udev tree. I believe that the aide code shuld be
corrected to handle all kinds of characters in pathnames in the config file.

Thanks,
 Rainer

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

It's not ideal, but aide uses lex for parsing config files, and changing that to support utf-8 is non-trivial.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package aide - 0.13.1-11ubuntu2

---------------
aide (0.13.1-11ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/aide.conf.d/70_aide_dev: escape another special character in
    filenames. (LP: #456710)
 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:25:56 -0500

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

SRU request for karmic is in bug #456679

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted aide into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Rainer Schöpf (rainer-schoepf)]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Martin Pitt wrote:

 > Accepted aide into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be
 > available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here.

I tested it, and it works OK.

 Thanks,
   Rainer

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package aide - 0.13.1-10ubuntu5.1

---------------
aide (0.13.1-10ubuntu5.1) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/cron.daily/aide: protect $LOGHEAD and $MAILHEAD so the cron
    script doesn't abort. (LP: #456679)
  * debian/aide.conf.d/70_aide_dev: escape some more special chars in
    filenames. (LP: #456710)
 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:08:43 -0500