Bug 316665 – app-forensics/aide fails to update/compare with >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.4

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2010-04-22 13:19:35 UTC]

Since I updated zlib to 1.2.4, aide has been failing to update it's database and send my daily report. I've been puzzled by the problem for a while until I remembered that zlib-1.2.4 upgrade caused some problems in other packages as well and sure enough, when I disabled gzip_output in my aide configuration and gunzip the existing files, it all started working again.

The output of aide was looking like this:
> [...]
> Output of the daily AIDE run (1 lines):
> Couldn't open file /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new for writing

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-04-22 14:01:58 UTC]

Gilles, you should try zlib-1.2.5 instead,  1.2.4 release was so bad it won't go stable (and is now overshadowed by 1.2.5 KEYWORDS).

[Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2010-04-22 14:10:10 UTC]

will do ASAP.

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2010-04-23 14:19:59 UTC]

Same problem with zlib-1.2.5:

# aide -V4 --update -c /etc/aide/aide.conf 
Couldn't open file /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new for writing

[Comment 4 MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) 2010-05-26 11:37:35 UTC]

Fixed in cvs.
0.13.1-r5

[Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2010-09-29 16:38:32 UTC]

confirming this works with sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5-r2 and app-forensics/aide-0.14.2. Thanks all.