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Author: Mark Hindley
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To: Alessandro Vesely, 491
Subject: [devuan-dev] bug#491: bug#491: snmpd: Default not sourced, SNMPDOPTS not changed, 'ia_addr' error resurrected
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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