| Summary: | app-forensics/aide fails to update/compare with >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.4 | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) <eva> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Forensics Herd [disbanded] <forensics+obsolete> |
| Status: | VERIFIED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | etmsys, matsuu |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://aide.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/aide/aide/src/be.c?r1=1.11&r2=1.12 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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). will do ASAP. 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 Fixed in cvs. 0.13.1-r5 confirming this works with sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5-r2 and app-forensics/aide-0.14.2. Thanks all. |
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