Package: cacti Version: 0.6.8a-13.1 Followup-For: Bug #206600 As Gaetan wrote, there is a mismatch of variables in the cacti.postinst script, which stops installation with "Cacti is not configured due to wrong mysql hostname/credential".
With a hotfix I could repeat the installation successfully by running dpkg-reconfigure cacti. I had to add the following 3 lines in the function get_config(): dbname="$RET" dbuser="$RET" dbpass="$RET" ...now it looks like this: get_config() { db_get cacti/mysql_server mysql_server="$RET" db_get cacti/database database="$RET" dbname="$RET" db_get cacti/root_mysql root_mysql="$RET" db_get cacti/root_password root_passwd="$RET" db_get cacti/username username="$RET" dbuser="$RET" db_get cacti/password password="$RET" dbpass="$RET" db_get cacti/webserver webserver="$RET" db_get cacti/no_mysql no_mysql="$RET" } -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux testix 2.4.20 #2 SMP Wed Jan 29 14:10:21 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages cacti depends on: ii apache 1.3.27.1-3 Versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii debconf 1.3.14 Debian configuration management sy ii mysql-client 4.0.14-1 mysql database client binaries ii php4-cgi 4:4.3.2+rc3-6 A server-side, HTML-embedded scrip ii php4-mysql 4:4.3.2+rc3-6 MySQL module for php4 ii rrdtool 1.0.42-2 Time-series data storage and displ ii snmp 5.0.7-1.1 NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen ii wwwconfig-common 0.0.30 Debian web auto configuration -- debconf information excluded