[Bug 398009] Re: global: pkg fails to configure if FQDN unknown

[Felix Geyer]

I've uploaded the patch to lucid- and maverick-proposed.

** Also affects: global (Ubuntu Maverick)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: global (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: global (Ubuntu Maverick)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  global: pkg fails to configure if FQDN unknown

Status in “global” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “global” source package in Lucid:
  Triaged
Status in “global” source package in Maverick:
  Triaged
Status in “global” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: global

  Package: global
  Version: 5.7.1-1

  The following command in the postinst fails:

  hostname --fqdn

  outputing this:

  hostname: Unknown host

  Indeed, my fqdn was unknown at the time, but that shouldn't
  have caused my upgrade to Jaunty to fail.

  [Impact]
  This bug causes upgrades to fail.  At this time, the bug has 23 duplicates, and there is a steady trickle of reports from affected users on Lucid and other old releases.

  While there are no reverse dependencies, Apt reports the upgrade as
  failed, and dpkg reports broken packages.

  [Development Fix]
  Package 5.7.1-2 contains this patch:

  --- global-5.7.1/debian/global.postinst
  +++ global-5.7.1/debian/global.postinst
  @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   set -e
   if [ "$1" = "configure" ];
   then
  -	HOST=`hostname --fqdn`
  +	HOST=$(hostname --fqdn) || HOST="localhost"
   	htconfig -I -a http://${HOST}/cgi-bin/gsearch.cgi -p /var/lib/gsearch/pathdata /usr/lib/cgi-bin
   fi

  The only other change is 5.7.1-2 is an update of the Depends: in the
  control file.

  [Stable Fix]
  See [Development Fix]

  [Test Case]
  The postinst script should succeed on a system where /etc/hostname contains an unqualified hostname.

  [Regression Potential]
  Fail to identify how this could be harmful.  (They all say that, don't they?)

  ProblemType: Package
  Architecture: i386
  Dependencies:
   libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5ubuntu4
   gcc-4.3-base 4.3.3-5ubuntu4
   findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu4
   libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  ErrorMessage:
   ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Package: global 5.7.1-1
  SourcePackage: global
  Title: package global 5.7.1-1 failed to install/upgrade:
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686

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