Comment 4 for bug 1920649

Thanks - I repeated your recipe step by step, and, sure enough,
running aideinit -f did not cause a segfault.

But after running for over an hour and a half, with zero bytes written to
aide.db.new, it was clearly not going anywhere, so I killed it.

Joe

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 11:40 AM Konstantin Kalmykov <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> I can tell what I did to mitigate this bug, and It’s worked for me (do
> it as power user or root):
>
> 1. Completely purge installed AIDE:
>
> apt purge aide aide-common
> rm -rf /var/log/aide
>
> 2. Install AIDE back again:
>
> apt update
> apt install aide-common aide-dynamic
>
> 3. Then rebuild config:
>
> update-aide.conf
> cp -v /var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated /etc/aide/aide.conf
>
> 4. Run init script:
>
> aideinit -f
>
> Then for me it was no errors, and AIDE running well.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1920649
>
> Title:
> ubuntu 20.04 LTS - aide crashes on initialization
>
> Status in aide package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> root@flynn:~# aideinit
> Running aide --init...
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> AIDE --init return code 139
>
>
> [Sat Mar 20 18:21:48 2021] aide[6409]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f903f98714b
> sp 00007ffefb573de8 error 4 in libc-2.31.so[7f903f88c000+178000]
> [Sat Mar 20 18:21:48 2021] Code: 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00
> 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 8b 05 25 ad 0c 00 48 83 ff 10 74 47 48 83 ff 1a 74 49
> 48 8b 40 60 <48> 8b 10 48 85 d2 75 12 eb 1b 0f 1f 00 48 8b 50 10 48 83 c0
> 10 48
>
> root@flynn:~# uname -a
> Linux flynn 5.8.0-45-generic #51~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 23 13:46:31
> UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> root@flynn:~#
>
> root@flynn:~# cat /etc/os-release
> NAME="Ubuntu"
> VERSION="20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
> ID=ubuntu
> ID_LIKE=debian
> PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS"
> VERSION_ID="20.04"
> HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
> SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
> BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
> PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="
> https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
> VERSION_CODENAME=focal
> UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
> Package: aide 0.16.1-1build2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-45.51~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18
> Uname: Linux 5.8.0-45-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
> Architecture: amd64
> CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
> Date: Sat Mar 20 18:45:43 2021
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-03-20 (0 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release
> amd64 (20210209.1)
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm-256color
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: aide
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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