libsnmp-base doesn't have the /usr/share/snmp/mibs directory and files

[Ivan Quirino]

The MIB information files are missing. /usr/share/snmp/mibs doesn't exist and the files that should be in this directory are missing. This problem is found on X86_64 Maverick, while on X86 Lucid the directory and files are there. These files include MIB information, which is required to snmpwalk and snmpget programs and others.

When running this command on X86_64 Maverick:
snmpwalk -v 2c -c <community> <host> memory

memory: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> memory)

Now running in X86 Lucid:
snmpwalk -v 2c -c <community> <host> memory

UCD-SNMP-MIB::memIndex.0 = INTEGER: 0
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memErrorName.0 = STRING: swap
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalSwap.0 = INTEGER: 2100816 kB
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memAvailSwap.0 = INTEGER: 2054320 kB
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalReal.0 = INTEGER: 24946708 kB
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memAvailReal.0 = INTEGER: 2520100 kB
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalFree.0 = INTEGER: 4574420 kB
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memMinimumSwap.0 = INTEGER: 16000 kB
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memShared.0 = INTEGER: 0 kB
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memBuffer.0 = INTEGER: 183364 kB
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memCached.0 = INTEGER: 19922032 kB
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memSwapError.0 = INTEGER: noError(0)
UCD-SNMP-MIB::memSwapErrorMsg.0 = STRING:

Probably the missing files are causing this error.
This bug is related to bug #662578

[Ove Størholt (ove-storholt)]

I can confirm that it's probably just the MIB information files that are missing. I copied the folder /usr/share/snmp/mibs from a Lucid based server to Maverick and voila!

Took me forever to find out though... :-|