X2Go Bug report logs - #1458
unattended Debian installations (using preseed) fail when x2gobroker-ssh is involved

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Package: x2gobroker-ssh; Maintainer for x2gobroker-ssh is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2gobroker-ssh is src:x2gobroker.

Reported by: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de>

Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:10:54 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: pending

Fixed in version 0.0.4.2

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package: x2gobroker-ssh
version 0.0.4.1
severity: important

The postinst file for x2gobroker-ssh contains a check to see if the nscd
binary is somewhere in the path.  If it is, then nscd -i group is
called, to purge the group cache (which makes sense, as a new group has
been added in a previous step, so the cached information is outdated).
If it is not, then it is assumed that nscd is not installed, thus, no
group information is cached, and thus, no purge is needed.

This fails to take into account that nscd might be (freshly) installed,
but not running.  Which is the case during a preseeded Debian
installation (and probably when running debootstrap as well).

The result is that "nscd -i group" is called even though nscd isn't
active at the moment.

Which triggers a return code of "1".

Which in turn causes the postinst script to report "1" as its return code.

This, of course, gets passed back up to the debian-installer, which
decides to abort the installation, as it seems that something went wrong
during installation of the package.

The patch is rather simple: Instead of checking for the presence of the
executable in the file system, check if it is currently running:

-                                        if which nscd 1>/dev/null; then
+                                        if ps -C nscd 1>/dev/null; then

As this is currently breaking all automated x2gobroker-ssh installs, I
would suggest releasing a new version containing only this patch ASAP,
if a full release with all changes since the last proper release of
x2gobroker-ssh would bring too many changes at once for a timely release.

Kind Regards,
Stefan Baur

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