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Please sync snort (2.7.0-14) from Debian Unstable (Main)

Bug #213143 reported by David on 2008-04-07

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	snort (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Kees Cook

Bug Description

Binary package hint: snort

Snort install stops at not using pcap_frames, control-c must be used to abort install, this seems to be a post install call so the software is most likely complete. works properly when testing modified default snort.conf

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 7 06:24:32 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
Package: snort None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/snort.list]
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: snort
Title: package snort None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/snort.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic i686

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David (spam-sadtler) wrote on 2008-04-07:

DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (17.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Jurjen Stellingwerff (jurjen-stwerff) wrote on 2008-04-22:

This bug is same as the debian bug 471895 and is fixed there with snort_2.7.0-14.
Some configuration files were not copied on installation and so it defaulted to foreground running instead of running as a daemon.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471895

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Jurjen Stellingwerff (jurjen-stwerff) wrote on 2008-04-22:

Work around to still install snort with this bug unfixed

remove the log file with the root user instead of the snort user:
sudo rm /var/log/snort/alert

create a file /etc/default/snort with:
sudo gedit /etc/default/snort

# Parameters for the daemon
PARAMS="-m 027 -D -d "
SNORTUSER="snort"
LOGDIR="/var/log/snort"
SNORTGROUP="snort"
ALLOW_UNAVAILABLE="no"

retry the installation:
sudo apt-get install snort

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote on 2008-04-22: Re: snort: failed to install: post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)

debdiff between 2.7.0-13 and 2.7.0-14 Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain)

Please sync 2.7.0-14, it is a bug-fix-only release.

snort (2.7.0-14) unstable; urgency=high

   * Move installation of the snort.default file from the install-indep rule to
     the install rule. This error was preventing /etc/snort/default from being
     created in the Snort binary packages and, consequently, the init.d would
     fail to start properly and the package would not install (Closes: #471895,
     #473282)
   * Add libgnutls-dev Build-Depend (Closes: #476651)
   * Fix typo in the name of the community rules in snort.conf, thanks to
     David Gil for providing a patch (Closes: #470881)

-- Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <email address hidden> Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:39:47 +0200

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote on 2008-04-22:

Ack from motu-release.

Kees Cook (kees) on 2008-04-22

Changed in snort:
assignee:	nobody → keescook
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Confirmed

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote on 2008-04-22:

* Trying to add snort...
  - <snort_2.7.0.orig.tar.gz: already in distro - downloading from librarian>
  - <snort_2.7.0-14.diff.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <snort_2.7.0-14.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>