nsd3 fails to install on lucid

[Teun Vink]

Binary package hint: nsd3

nsd3 fails to install on lucid:
[21:35|<email address hidden> ~]
# apt-get install nsd3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
nsd3 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up nsd3 (3.2.4-1) ...
Could not open /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf: No such file or directory
Could not open /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf: No such file or directory
 * Building nsd3 zones... Could not open /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript nsd3, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing nsd3 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nsd3
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[21:35|<email address hidden> ~]
# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu lucid (development branch)"

Since only /etc3/nsd/nsd.conf.sample is provided (and no real config file), nsd shouldn't be started when installing, since this will fail due to missing config files. Also, the nsd.conf.sample file is owned by root, while it should be owned by user nsd.

[Samuel J. Muller (sam-l33)]

Bug already seen here :

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570160

Workaround from Debian case is working fine (tags 570160 patch).

[Tim Kuijsten (kuijsten)]

This does not look like a duplicate of #705889, but isn't this related to it?

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

A simple workaround it to do this /before/ installing nsd3 :

mkdir /etc/nsd3
touch /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

Here is a debdiff for lucid-proposed. The fix is exactly the same as what Debian applied to close 570160.

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[Evan Broder (broder)]

Marking as fix released for the current devel release.

[Evan Broder (broder)]

I've uploaded the patch to lucid-proposed with a few changes. Most importantly, I reverted your changes to suppress Lintian errors; SRUs are supposed to make the minimal change needed to fix the bug.

Somebody from the Ubuntu SRU team should be around in a few days to accept the upload and begin the verification process.

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

Thanks Evan for fixing the debdiff and make it more suitable for a SRU, I'll know for next time.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Hello Teun, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nsd3 into lucid-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!

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

Thanks Clint for your quick support. I can confirm that the fix works on my newly created VM.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nsd3 - 3.2.4-1ubuntu0.1

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nsd3 (3.2.4-1ubuntu0.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Apply patch from Debian bug #570160 to fix installation failure caused
    by missing /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf. (LP: #534643)
 -- Simon Deziel <email address hidden> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:34:47 -0800