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Bug#993164: proftpd-core: When upgrading from Buster to Bullseyes, the installation of ProFTPd fails

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Andreas Günther

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Aug 29, 2021, 4:30:03 AM8/29/21
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Am Samstag, 28. August 2021, 17:09:37 CEST schrieb Hilmar Preuße:
> Hmm, weird: the modules in question should be provided by
> proftpd-mod-wrap & proftpd-mod-crypto, should should have installed.
> Could you check if the files /usr/lib/proftpd/mod_tls.so &
> /usr/lib/proftpd/mod_wrap.so do exist?
>
> Hilmar
Hi Hilmar,

both,
/usr/lib/proftpd/mod_wrap.so
and
/usr/lib/proftpd/mod_tls.so
doesn't exist.

But that also seems logical to me, because in order to be able to install
proftpd-mod-wrap and proftpd-mod-crypto, proftpd-core has to be completely
installed because of the dependencies. But the installation of proftpd-core
fails right from the start.

dpkg: Error while editing the package proftpd-core (--configure):
The "installed proftpd-core script of the post-installation package"
subprocess returned the error value 1
dpkg: Dependency problems prevent configuration of proftpd-mod-crypto:
proftpd-mod-crypto depends on proftpd-core (= 1.3.7a + dfsg-12); but:
Package proftpd-core is not yet configured.

At the moment I think something is going wrong with the installation of
proftpd-core.

Best regards

Andreas

Hilmar Preuße

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Aug 29, 2021, 6:40:04 PM8/29/21
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On 8/29/21 10:12 AM, Andreas Günther wrote:
> Am Samstag, 28. August 2021, 17:09:37 CEST schrieb Hilmar Preuße:

Hi,
When splitting off the wrap and the crypto modules into own packages I
put them into recommends to make sure they are installed.

proftpd-dfsg (1.3.7a-2) unstable; urgency=medium

[ Hilmar Preusse ]
* Move modules depending on libsodium & libwrap0 into own packages.
New packages are recommended.

Francesco later decided to put them into Suggests:

proftpd-dfsg (1.3.7a+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=medium

* Moved -mod-wrap and -mod-crypto among Suggests, thanks to changes
to default
template for modules.conf.

So, you probably have a custom modules.conf and refused to use the one
from the package maintainers. So solution could be: either install these
packages or use the modules.conf from the package. Please send the
output of

apt install proftpd-core proftpd-basic proftpd-mod-crypto proftpd-mod-wrap

I'm wondering why this does not work: all packages should be unpacked
before the proftpd-core is configured, so all files needed to configure
proftpd-core should be available.

Hilmar
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Andreas Günther

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Aug 31, 2021, 7:00:03 AM8/31/21
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Am Montag, 30. August 2021, 18:42:01 CEST schrieb Hilmar Preuße:

>

> I would not expect that this works. Your specific proftp configuration

> needs to crypto and the wrap modules so I'd expect that the setup fails,

> b/c they could not be found.

>

> However I still don't understand why the setup fails if they are at

> least in unpacked state.

 

> > I am still convinced that there is something wrong with this package.

 

Hi,

 

but I realized that now. The whole time the installer was bothered by a line in "/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf", namely "IdentLookups off". I commented on this line and thus everything could be reinstalled and started successfully.

 

Best regards and thank you very much

 

Andreas

Andreas Günther

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Sep 3, 2021, 8:40:03 AM9/3/21
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Am Freitag, 3. September 2021, 14:36:27 CEST schrieb Hilmar Preuße:

>

> Can we close the case now?

>

> Hilmar

 

Yes, we can!

 

Andreas

 

 

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