Bug#681248: pdns-server: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'gmysql-host'

[Juha Heinanen]

Package: pdns-server
Version: 3.1-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

After I did yesterday 'apt-get dist-upgrade' of my debian wheezy host, pdns
server started to repeatedly write to syslog these messages:

Jul 11 07:28:15 siika pdns[3366]: Our pdns instance exited with code 1
Jul 11 07:28:15 siika pdns[3366]: Respawning
Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Guardian is launching an instance
Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'
Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: This is a guarded instance of pdns
Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting
parameter 'gmysql-host'

Before this dist-upgrade pdns had worked fine in my wheezy host.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pdns-server depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.44
ii libboost-program-options1.49.0 1.49.0-3.1
ii libboost-serialization1.49.0 1.49.0-3.1
ii libc6 2.13-33
ii libcrypto++9 5.6.1-6
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-2
ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.5-2
ii libpolarssl0 1.1.4-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-2
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

pdns-server recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pdns-server suggests:
ii pdns-backend-mysql [pdns-backend] 3.1-4
ii pdns-recursor 3.3-3

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind'

-- debconf information:
* pdns-server/localaddress: 0.0.0.0
* pdns-server/allowrecursion: 127.0.0.1
* pdns-server/autostart: true



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[Peter van Dijk]

Hello,

On Jul 11, 2012, at 19:13 , Juha Heinanen wrote:

> After I did yesterday 'apt-get dist-upgrade' of my debian wheezy host, pdns
> server started to repeatedly write to syslog these messages:
>
> Jul 11 07:28:15 siika pdns[3366]: Our pdns instance exited with code 1
> Jul 11 07:28:15 siika pdns[3366]: Respawning
> Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Guardian is launching an instance
> Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'
> Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: This is a guarded instance of pdns
> Jul 11 07:28:16 siika pdns[4916]: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting
> parameter 'gmysql-host'
>
> Before this dist-upgrade pdns had worked fine in my wheezy host.

This happens when you have multiple launch= lines (possibly spread over different config files). Perhaps the dist-upgrade added a bind config file in /etc/powerdns/pdns.d?

Kind regards,
--
Peter van Dijk
Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/

[Juha Heinanen]

Peter van Dijk writes:

> This happens when you have multiple launch= lines (possibly spread
> over different config files). Perhaps the dist-upgrade added a bind
> config file in /etc/powerdns/pdns.d?

Peter,

Thanks for your response. Based on date, looks like this is new file in
/etc/powerdns/pdns.d:

4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 Jun 29 00:00 pdns.simplebind

The error messages disappeared after I deleted this file. Does deleting
it break something else?

-- Juha

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:13:52PM +0300, Juha Heinanen wrote:
> After I did yesterday 'apt-get dist-upgrade' of my debian wheezy host, pdns
> server started to repeatedly write to syslog these messages:

Does your package contain a NEWS.Debian file in /usr/share/doc/pdns?
You should read it.

Greetings
Marc

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[Juha Heinanen]

Marc Haber writes:

> Does your package contain a NEWS.Debian file in /usr/share/doc/pdns?
> You should read it.

ok, i read it, but i do not like at all the decision to include bind
backend in every debian pdns-server installation. perhaps it could be
done in fresh powerdns installation, but NOT in case of upgrade. it is
bad and user unfriendly idea to break working setups during upgrade.

-- juha

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 08:29:55AM +0300, Juha Heinanen wrote:
> Marc Haber writes:
> > Does your package contain a NEWS.Debian file in /usr/share/doc/pdns?
> > You should read it.
>
> ok, i read it, but i do not like at all the decision to include bind
> backend in every debian pdns-server installation. perhaps it could be
> done in fresh powerdns installation, but NOT in case of upgrade. it is
> bad and user unfriendly idea to break working setups during upgrade.

Please send a working and tested patch. This is decidedly non-trivial.

Greetings
Marc

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[Marc Haber]

retitle #681248 does not gracefully handle multiple launch statements
thanks