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krisdigitx
Asked: 2011-09-07 01:23:00 +0800 CST

bastille cannot find Curses.pm

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i am running centos 6 and installed the rpm version of bastille, it cannot find Curses.pm, however perl-Curses is installed and somehow even perl cannot find it.

[root@server ~]# /usr/sbin/bastille -c
ERROR:   Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
ERROR:   Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
NOTE:    Using Curses user interface module.
NOTE:    Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration.
ERROR:   Could not load the 'Curses.pm' interface module.This may be due to an
         invalid $DISPLAY setting,or the module not being visible to Perl.

[root@server ~]# rpm -qa | grep Curses
perl-Curses-1.28-1.el5.rf.x86_64


[root@server ~]# perl
use Curses;
Can't locate Curses.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at - line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at - line 1.

any ideas where i should look further...

[After research]:

i installed perl-Curses-1.28-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

and that worked now bastille is complaining about

/usr/sbin/bastille -c
ERROR:   Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
ERROR:   Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
NOTE:    Using Curses user interface module.
NOTE:    Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration.
Can't locate Bastille/API/HPSpecific.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ /usr/lib/Bastille /opt/sec_mgmt/bastille/lib /opt/sec_mgmt/bastille/lib/API /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at /usr/lib/Bastille/IOLoader.pm line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/Bastille/IOLoader.pm line 8.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/InteractiveBastille line 414.
centos perl curses

1 Answers

  1. Google is your and mine friend. Found this entry at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2767305&group_id=403&atid=100403

    Did a lot of Googling and testing; my conclusion is that the current version (3.2.1 - September 25, 2008 - Bastille-3.2.1-0.1.noarch.rpm) is not working except perhaps for one ore more specific distros (64-bit, HP only?). The project's news page (http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/news_updates.htm) last item is "September 12, 2007: There's a release coming tomorrow - stay tuned." I'm guessing Jay isn't around anymore and the HP sponsored team has been focused on their platform rather than maintaining the package as an open solution. The fact that the (apparently working) older version (Bastille-3.0.9-1.0.noarch.rpm) isn't (easily?) available here doesn't help. Here are the steps I've followed on CentOS 5:

    downloaded from here and installed 3.2.1-0.1 via rpm -ivh yum install perl-Curses

    bastille -c

    Error message: Can't locate Bastille/API.pm in @INC . . .

    grep'd /usr/sbin/InteractiveBastille for "use lib" line found Bastille directory (containing API.pm) in /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib, so moved it to /usr/lib (also could have symlinked or edited the IB script)

    Then got: Can't locate Bastille/API/HPSpecific.pm

    Turns out (as noted below) both the rpm and the source package lack an 'API' folder.

    Created the folder and used wget to retrieve the files from the SCM repository: http://bastille-linux.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bastille-linux/dev/working_tree/Bastille/Bastille/API/

    Then got "Could not determine CentOS version". Someone had claimed the below would work, but it didn't:

    Changed /etc/redhat-release from CentOS release 5 (Final) to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)

    Further errors coming from the new scripts in the API directory, so gave up. Will now try the older version, available via direct download here:

    http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bastille-linux/Bastille-3.0.9-1.0.noarch.rpm

    IMO this is no way to run a railroad, but since I'm just an end-user and not a contributor I guess I've got no right to B&M about it. While I'm at it thanks to all the developers who've put in so much of their time and energy on this tool, just looking at the code is a good learning experience so far. Here's hoping it gets some love in the future to bring it in sync with current distro versions. . .

    And I hope this post saves others from wasting some of their time - feedback welcome.

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