Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#491: snmpd: Default not sourced, SNMPDOPTS not changed, 'ia_addr' error resurrected

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:58:34 +0100

Control: tags -1 debian

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 06:47:32PM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> Package: snmpd
> Version: 5.7.3+dfsg-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> after upgrading to Beowulf, daemon.log gets filled with these:
> 
> Jul 14 18:31:46 31 north snmpd[27013]: error on subcontainer 'ia_addr' insert (-1)
> Jul 14 18:31:46 31 north snmpd[27013]: error on subcontainer 'ia_addr' insert (-1)
> Jul 14 18:31:46 31 north snmpd[27013]: error on subcontainer 'ia_addr' insert (-1)
> Jul 14 18:31:46 31 north snmpd[27013]: error on subcontainer 'ia_addr' insert (-1)
> Jul 14 18:31:46 31 north snmpd[27013]: error on subcontainer 'ia_addr' insert (-1)
> Jul 14 18:31:46 31 north snmpd[27013]: error on subcontainer 'ia_addr' insert (-1)
> Jul 14 18:31:46 31 north snmpd[27013]: error on subcontainer 'ia_addr' insert (-1)
> [...]
> 
> It is an old bug, with a known "solution" consisting in lowering the log level.
> 
> However, the Debian maintainer must have changed the original init.d/snmpd
> file, since they use systemd instead, so that /etc/default/snmpd does not
> get sourced.  Hence the logs.

Alessandro,

Thanks for this. However, as you note, this is a Debian bug and Devuan uses the
Debian packages directly. Please would you report this directly to Debian?

Thanks

Mark