Bug 327550

Summary:	yast2-mail fetchmail error
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Miquel A. Noguera <ibz>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Peter Varkoly <varkoly>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	mike
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	openSUSE 10.3
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	yast2-mail error proposed fix proposed fix, second version proposed fix, third version

Description Miquel A. Noguera 2007-09-23 09:27:24 UTC

When configuring mail service, yast2 complains about an error in fetchmail configuration.

Since fetchmail is not installed by default, I see two alternatives:

a) select and install fetchmail
b) skip fetchmail configuration

Comment 1 Miquel A. Noguera 2007-09-23 09:28:34 UTC

Created attachment 174050 [details]
yast2-mail error

Comment 2 Michal Kubeček 2007-09-24 08:13:06 UTC

Problem seems to be caused by missing user 'fetchmail'. After creating this user, yast2-mail does not fail even without fetchmail package installed.

Comment 3 Michal Kubeček 2007-09-24 10:48:53 UTC

ProbePackages() in Mail.ycp finds out (correctly) that fetchmail is not needed (there are no accounts configured for it) but then ag_fetchmailrc is called anyway and it fails to change owner of /etc/fetchmailrc to fetchmail (at the end of write_file(), line 224).

Certainly this bug appeared between 10.3 Beta3 and 10.3RC1 and is caused by changes between yast2-mail version 2.15.20-18 and 2.15.22-2.

Comment 4 Michal Kubeček 2007-09-24 11:29:02 UTC

Created attachment 174242 [details]
proposed fix

Call WriteDownloading() only if there is at least one fetchmail account (under the same condition ProbePackages() installs fetchmail if it is not installed yet).

Comment 5 Michal Kubeček 2007-09-24 11:51:29 UTC

Created attachment 174255 [details]
proposed fix, second version

Sorry, first patch was incorrect: it does not recreate /etc/fetchmailrc if there were any fetchmail accounts defined and all of them are removed. This should be OK.

Comment 6 Michal Kubeček 2007-09-24 13:25:20 UTC

There is one more problem: if fetchmail _is_ in the package selection, it can be installed before pwdutils, so that useradd command is not available for pre-install script and yast2-mail fails again. Package fetchmail should probably depend on pwdutils (or /usr/sbin/useradd).

Comment 8 Michal Kubeček 2007-09-24 14:55:43 UTC

Created attachment 174370 [details]
proposed fix, third version

Just a slight modification: if Package::Installed ("fetchmail") is checked, check for size(fetchmail)>0 is useless (if size is positive then fetchmail is installed by ProbePackages()).

Comment 9 Michal Kubeček 2007-11-21 04:53:57 UTC

Current state: bug in yast2-mail is fixed in 10.3 final, fetchmail dependency on pwdutils (useradd) still missing.

Comment 10 Peter Varkoly 2007-11-28 13:55:49 UTC

PreReq fixed in STABLE for the next product.