source code checkinstall failure

[sherv]

Good day.

I'm trying to install Nagios 3.4.1 from source in a Debian Linux with checkinstall, but it comes with failure.
Here's a 'configure' summary:

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*** Configuration summary for nagios 3.4.1 05-11-2012 ***:

 General Options:
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        Nagios executable:  nagios
        Nagios user/group:  nagios,nagios
       Command user/group:  nagios,nagios
            Embedded Perl:  yes, with caching
             Event Broker:  yes
        Install ${prefix}:  /usr/local/nagios
                Lock file:  ${prefix}/var/nagios.lock
   Check result directory:  ${prefix}/var/spool/checkresults
           Init directory:  /etc/init.d
  Apache conf.d directory:  /etc/apache2/conf.d
             Mail program:  /usr/bin/mail
                  Host OS:  linux-gnu

 Web Interface Options:
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                 HTML URL:  http://localhost/nagios/
                  CGI URL:  http://localhost/nagios/cgi-bin/
 Traceroute (used by WAP):  /usr/bin/traceroute

'make all' comes with two minor warning, nothing serious:

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utils.c: In function ‘file_uses_embedded_perl’:
utils.c:3115: warning: unused variable ‘use_epn’

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cgiutils.c: In function ‘include_ssi_files’:
cgiutils.c:1500: warning: unused variable ‘x’

But when I finally issue sudo checkinstall make install it comes with this:

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Installing with make install...

========================= Installation results ===========================
cd ./base && make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/nagios/base'
make install-basic
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/user/nagios/base'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/bin
/usr/bin/install -c -m 774 -o nagios -g nagios nagios /usr/local/nagios/bin
/usr/bin/install -c -m 774 -o nagios -g nagios nagiostats /usr/local/nagios/bin
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/nagios/base'
make strip-post-install
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/user/nagios/base'
/usr/bin/strip /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
/usr/bin/strip:/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios: could not create temporary file to hold stripped copy: No error
make[2]: *** [strip-post-install] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/nagios/base'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/nagios/base'
make: *** [install] Error 2

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

Did anyone had the same issue? Is there a way to fix this?

My system:

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Linux server 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:00:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[agriffin]

Do you have enough disk space to do the build? What does your output from 'df -h' look like?

[sherv]

One of the first things I checked

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$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/srv-root   95G  1.8G   88G   2% /
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                  2.0G  104K  2.0G   1% /dev
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             228M   16M  200M   8% /boot

Inodes are also ok:

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$ df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/srv-root    6.0M     49K    6.0M    1% /
tmpfs                   496K       5    496K    1% /lib/init/rw
udev                    495K     524    495K    1% /dev
tmpfs                   496K       1    496K    1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1               122K     222    122K    1% /boot

[agriffin]

A google search turned up some other people who got this error message and it turned out to be a permissions issue. Are you sure you didn't forget to type out 'sudo'?

[sherv]

A google search turned up some other people who got this error message and it turned out to be a permissions issue. Are you sure you didn't forget to type out 'sudo'?

No, I did not. Also, running "checkinstall make install" under root returns the same error.

[agriffin]

Do you have anything like SELinux, Tomoyo, or AppArmor on this system?

[sherv]

Do you have anything like SELinux, Tomoyo, or AppArmor on this system?

No, it's running plain Debian 6.0, no security packages installed.

[mguthrie]

I'm noticing it trying to put files in the directories below, which don't match what you had with the configuration summary.

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make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/nagios/base'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/nagios/base'

I'd try starting from the beginning with:

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sudo -i
./configure --disable-embedded-perl
make
make all
make install

[sherv]

Nope, it's pretty much the same error.

I'm noticing it trying to put files in the directories below, which don't match what you had with the configuration summary.

I don't understand why this is a concern? Package is compiled under users' "home" directory, and from there it's trying to install in the system. That's how I do this for... well, my whole Linux-life actually. Good old "wget, tar zxvf, ./configure && make && make install" routine

I think this is some fundamental problem with Debian's checkinstall system. I'm pretty sure you can reproduce the issue on a clean Debian 6.0 x86_64 installation.
And I'm also pretty sure, that Nagios will successfully install with 'sudo make install', but I want it to be embedded in package system for easier update/management, scince Nagios doesn't have 'make uninstall' directive.