[Monotone-debian] Bug#437978: can't reproduce this with 0.37-1 either

[Berg, Michael]

> * By any chance is /bin/sh provided by dash on the machine you're
> using?  The maintainer scripts have a number of bashisms in them.
> (This will be fixed in 0.37-2.)

No.  dash is not even installed on this system.

As a regular user:
$ realpath /bin/sh
/bin/bash

As root:
# realpath /bin/sh
/bin/bash


> * Could I get you to check out the tip of
> net.venge.monotone.debian-diff (server monotone.ca) ...

Right now I don't have time to do this, but some additional information
and thoughts are below.

I recently upgraded to the 0.37 package with no problems, but after
receiving email I purged and reinstalled as a test.

==========
# aptitude install monotone-server
    ... dialog questions ...

Selecting previously deselected package monotone-server.
(Reading database ... 225657 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking monotone-server (from .../monotone-server_0.37-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up monotone-server (0.37-1) ...

Creating config file /etc/monotone/write-permissions with new version

Creating config file /etc/monotone/read-permissions with new version

Creating config file /etc/monotone/hooks.lua with new version
Creating Monotone database...
Creating Monotone server keypair...
enter passphrase for key ID address@hidden:
confirm passphrase for key ID address@hidden:
Monotone database created successfully.
Starting Monotone Server: monotone
monotone configured in /etc/default/monotone not to start.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
==========

# ls -ld /var/run/monotone/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 2007-11-01 13:01 /var/run/monotone/

So I'm still getting hit by this on a new installed on this system.

>From a previous entry in this bug report:
> It may be that the problem was due to the monotone user not
> being present for some reason.

I'm using LDAP for user authentication on this system in addition to
/etc/password and /etc/shadow.

monotone is in /etc/passwd as
monotone:x:118:126:Monotone,,,:/var/lib/monotone:/bin/false

Maybe using an authentication system beyond the standard password files
is causing some kind of problem during monotone-server installation.