access to non-existent /etc/inittab

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 152968, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

According to bug #152968 the secvpn package is old, unmaintained, and poorly designed from a security perspective and this issue won't be fixed. It will be removed from the next release.

Thanks again for you help to make Ubuntu better.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll remove it.

=rk
On Nov 20, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:

> According to bug #152968 the secvpn package is old, unmaintained, and
> poorly designed from a security perspective and this issue won't be
> fixed. It will be removed from the next release.
>
> Thanks again for you help to make Ubuntu better.
>
> --
> access to non-existent /etc/inittab
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327482
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “secvpn” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: secvpn
>
> yo
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ErrorMessage: el subproceso post-installation script devolvió el código de salida de error 1
> NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
> Package: secvpn 2.21+nmu1
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: secvpn
> Title: package secvpn 2.21+nmu1 failed to install/upgrade: el subproceso post-installation script devolvió el código de salida de error 1
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

During a automatic intall/remove of the package the following problems were found from the package auto-install-tester on current lucid:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ssh timeout
The following NEW packages will be installed
  secvpn ssh timeout
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 146 not upgraded.
Need to get 251kB of archives.
After this operation, 524kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main ssh 1:5.3p1-3ubuntu3 [1,264B]
Get: 2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe timeout 1.19-1 [25.5kB]
Get: 3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe secvpn 2.22 [224kB]
Fetched 251kB in 1s (230kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package ssh.
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `nvidia-glx-new' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 416174 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ssh (from .../ssh_1%3a5.3p1-3ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package timeout.
Unpacking timeout (from .../timeout_1.19-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package secvpn.
Unpacking secvpn (from .../archives/secvpn_2.22_all.deb) ...
Adding system user `secvpn' (UID 129) ...
Adding new user `secvpn' (UID 129) with group `nogroup' ...
Creating home directory `/usr/share/secvpn' ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up ssh (1:5.3p1-3ubuntu3) ...

Setting up timeout (1.19-1) ...
Setting up secvpn (2.22) ...
Starting Monitor Daemon for Secure Virtual Private Network: cp: cannot stat `/etc/inittab': No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript secvpnmon, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing secvpn (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 secvpn
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)