munin-node-configure --shell fails on lucid

Do you have autoconf installed?

Yes I do.

$ dpkg -l | grep autoconf
ii autoconf 2.65-3ubuntu1 automatic configure script builder

I have the same issue here.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"

$ dpkg -l | grep autoconf
ii autoconf 2.65-3ubuntu1 automatic configure script builder

dpkg -l | grep munin
ii munin 1.4.4-1ubuntu1 network-wide graphing framework (grapher/gat
ii munin-common 1.4.4-1ubuntu1 network-wide graphing framework (common)
ii munin-node 1.4.4-1ubuntu1 network-wide graphing framework (node)
ii munin-plugins-extra 1.4.4-1ubuntu1 network-wide graphing framework (user contri

I dug into this a little today by running strace on the call:

sudo strace munin-node-configure --shell &> strace.output

Examining that led to the suspicious discover that somebody was attempting to use the Text::CSV_XS library and not finding it so I installed libtext-csv-xs-perl and tried again with no real change in output. Examining the output of strace more revealed that all 109 SIGCHLD actually returned 0.

The strace did reveal what appeared to be read off of stdout from child processes and they were all of the form:

read(4, "int \"no (no ipmitool output)\"\n\nd"..., 4096) = 1107
read(4, "no (cannot read /proc/acpi/therm"..., 4096) = 55
read(4, "no (Port 80: Forbidden)\n", 4096) = 24
...

or the positive:
read(4, "yes\n", 4096) = 4

During the run after the installation of Text::CSV_XS, I did not find anything particularly suspicious in the output. Is there anything else I could provide which might shine light on why --shell does not work?

reproduced with munin 1.4.5

# munin-node-configure --shell
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/ip_' '/etc/munin/plugins/ip_XXX.54.35.25'
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/ip_' '/etc/munin/plugins/ip_XXX.54.40.25'
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/nfsd' '/etc/munin/plugins/nfsd'
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_cache_' '/etc/munin/plugins/postgres_cache_ALL'
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_connections_' '/etc/munin/plugins/postgres_connections_ALL'
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_locks_' '/etc/munin/plugins/postgres_locks_ALL'
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_querylength_' '/etc/munin/plugins/postgres_querylength_ALL'
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_size_' '/etc/munin/plugins/postgres_size_ALL'
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_transactions_' '/etc/munin/plugins/postgres_transactions_ALL'
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_users' '/etc/munin/plugins/postgres_users'
ln -s '/usr/share/munin/plugins/postgres_xlog' '/etc/munin/plugins/postgres_xlog'
# The following plugins caused errors:
# df:
# Junk printed to stderr
# df_inode:
# Junk printed to stderr
# postgres_scans_:
# Non-zero exit during autoconf (2)
# postgres_tuples_:
# Non-zero exit during autoconf (2)
# slony_lag_:
# Non-zero exit during autoconf (2)
# snort_alerts:
# Non-zero exit during autoconf (1)
# Junk printed to stderr
# snort_bytes_pkt:
# Non-zero exit during autoconf (1)
# Junk printed to stderr
# snort_drop_rate:
# Non-zero exit during autoconf (1)
# Junk printed to stderr
# snort_pattern_match:
# Non-zero exit during autoconf (1)
# Junk printed to stderr
# snort_pkts:
# Non-zero exit during autoconf (1)
# Junk printed to stderr
# snort_traffic:
# Non-zero exit during autoconf (1)
# Junk printed to stderr

my strace.output as suggested above

I use perl 5.12.1

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Hi all.

Any news on this problem ? I have exactly same issue :(

Hi,

any news ?

It's not a bug in app but in your configuration. I have a newer version (1.4.5) than yours and I get the same logs like UndiFineD but I'm almost 100% sure it's the same problem.

You need to set environment variables to give libdbd-pg-perl information how and where to connect. Maybe there is some other way but I don't know perl (Java rules).

root@arturc:/etc/munin# export PGHOST=localhost
root@arturc:/etc/munin# export PGPORT=5432
root@arturc:/etc/munin# export PGUSER=postgres
And also (!!!)
root@arturc:/etc/munin# export PGPASSWORD=mySecretPassword
Note, that having a password in ~/.pgpass change nothing. Munin (or per libraries) simply ignore it.

With these environment params you can successfuly run both
 # munin-node-configure --suggest
 # munin-node-configure --shell
and (after symbolic link creation) install munin.