Re: Debian shishi package bug

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:

> I'll take a look and see about getting the packages uploaded tomorrow.

shishid appears to be broken, at least on my system, and I'm not sure how
to fix it.  In the current package, the init script starts the daemon in
the foreground and it just hangs until one types Ctrl-D.  It then dies and
the boot process continues.  Using --background fixes this, but shishid
just starts and immediately exits.  It spits out the following in syslog:

Apr 20 19:09:08 wanderer /usr/sbin/shishid: Starting (GNUTLS `1.2.9')
Apr 20 19:09:08 wanderer /usr/sbin/shishid: Listening on IPv6:*:kerberos/udp 
socket 0 
Apr 20 19:09:08 wanderer /usr/sbin/shishid: Listening on IPv4:*:kerberos/tcp 
socket 4 
Apr 20 19:09:08 wanderer /usr/sbin/shishid: Listening on IPv4:*:kerberos/udp 
socket 5 
Apr 20 19:09:08 wanderer /usr/sbin/shishid: Error reading from 
IPv6:*:kerberos/udp on socket 0 (-1): Unknown error 4294967295
Apr 20 19:09:08 wanderer /usr/sbin/shishid: Closing IPv6:*:kerberos/udp socket 0

before it disappears.

Also, if shishid isn't running, the init script stop action fails, which
then causes all sorts of strange problems for the upgrade process.  In
fact, if the old shishid package is installed, it appears to be impossible
to upgrade the system; the package is so broken that there doesn't appear
to be any way to get rid of it without manually removing the init script
and then using dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq.  I think some of
this may be due to a debhelper bug; I'm investigating.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>