Comment 6 for bug 270713

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:35:44PM -0000, Chuck Short wrote:
> Can you try the version in my ppa when its built
> (http://launchpad.net/~zulcss/+archive)?

- added your two deb entries to /etc/apt/sources.list
- apt-get install snmpd:

The following packages will be upgraded:
  snmpd
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 54 not upgraded.
Need to get 74.3kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  snmpd
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main snmpd 5.4.1~dfsg-4ubuntu5~ppa2 [74.3kB]
Fetched 74.3kB in 0s (90.5kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 160245 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace snmpd 5.4.1~dfsg-4ubuntu4 (using .../snmpd_5.4.1~dfsg-4ubuntu5~ppa2_i386.deb) ...
Stopping network management services: snmpd snmptrapd.
Unpacking replacement snmpd ...
Setting up snmpd (5.4.1~dfsg-4ubuntu5~ppa2) ...
Starting network management services: snmpd.

- then it said:

Oct 27 12:16:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: netsnmp_assert !"registration != duplicate" failed agent_registry.c:535 netsnmp_subtree_load()
Oct 27 12:16:31 hardy last message repeated 2 times
Oct 27 12:16:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:16:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:16:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: could not open /proc/net/if_inet6
Oct 27 12:16:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:16:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:16:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:16:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:16:46 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:16:46 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:17:01 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:17:01 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:17:01 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:17:01 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:17:16 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:17:16 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:17:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: cannot open /proc/net/snmp6 ...
Oct 27 12:17:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:17:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:17:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:17:31 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:17:46 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:17:46 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:18:01 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:18:01 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:18:01 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
Oct 27 12:18:01 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 3
Oct 27 12:18:16 hardy snmpd[27523]: error getting netmask for interface 2
[...repeat...]