Bug 69957 – snort-2.2.0 ebuild fails

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Torgeir Hansen 2004-11-03 10:43:02 UTC]

Of the three different systems I have snort installed; all of them failed the 2.2.0 ebuild.
It fails at install-phase, apparently usermod as it finishes:



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>>> Install snort-2.2.0 into /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/ category net-analyzer
(...)

make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image//usr/share/man/man8
mkdir /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share
mkdir /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/man
mkdir /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/man/man8
 /bin/install -c -m 644 ./snort.8 /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image//usr/share/man/man8/snort.8
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/work/snort-2.2.0'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/work/snort-2.2.0'
install: `doc/signatures' is a directory
gzip: /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/doc/snort-2.2.0/signatures: No such file or directory
gzip: /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/doc/snort-2.2.0/contrib/ACID-0.9.6b21.tar.gz already has .gz suf         fix -- unchanged
gzip: /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/doc/snort-2.2.0/contrib/Guardian.tar.gz already has .gz suffix -         - unchanged
gzip: /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/doc/snort-2.2.0/contrib/Net-SnortLog-0.1.tar.gz already has .gz          suffix -- unchanged
gzip: /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/doc/snort-2.2.0/contrib/Spade-092200.1.tar.gz already has .gz su         ffix -- unchanged
gzip: /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/doc/snort-2.2.0/contrib/passiveOS.tar.gz already has .gz suffix          -- unchanged
install: `contrib/rpm' is a directory
gzip: /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/doc/snort-2.2.0/contrib/rpm: No such file or directory
gzip: /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/doc/snort-2.2.0/contrib/snortdb-extra.gz already has .gz suffix          -- unchanged
gzip: /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/doc/snort-2.2.0/contrib/snortnet.tar.gz already has .gz suffix -         - unchanged
gzip: /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/usr/share/doc/snort-2.2.0/contrib/snortwatch-0.7.tar.gz already has .gz su         ffix -- unchanged
man:
gzipping man page: snort.8
prepallstrip:
strip: 
strip: 
   usr/bin/snort
>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/snort-2.2.0/image/

>>> Merging net-analyzer/snort-2.2.0 to /
usermod: PAM authentication failed

!!! ERROR: net-analyzer/snort-2.2.0 failed.
!!! Function pkg_preinst, Line 102, Exitcode 1
!!! usermod problem
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

!!! FAILED preinst: 1
[17:52]root@stue:~> 
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This is what happenes when I try the usermod commands specified in the ebuilds:
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[19:38]root@stue:~> usermod -d /var/log/snort snort
usermod: PAM authentication failed
[19:39]root@stue:~> usermod -g snort snort
usermod: PAM authentication failed
[19:39]root@stue:~> usermod -s "/dev/null" snort
usermod: PAM authentication failed
[19:39]root@stue:~> id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
[19:39]root@stue:~> 
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[Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2004-11-03 10:48:50 UTC]

see bug 69895

[Comment 2 Eldad Zack (RETIRED) 2004-11-04 01:57:58 UTC]

bug 69895 is resolved: reemerge shadow, and reemerge snort again.