[gentoo-user] fail2ban can't find sqlite?

[gentoo-user] fail2ban can't find sqlite?

[Dan Egli]

I am trying to figure this one out. I need some help as apparently my 
google-fu isn't strong today. I installed faii2ban so I could use it to 
monitor the logs and adjust the firewall as necessary. It installed 
okay, and seems to run okay EXCEPT for this one error I get each time I 
start fail2ban-server:
2021-02-06 18:30:28,128 fail2ban.server         [32124]: ERROR Unable to 
import fail2ban database module as sqlite is not available.

At first I thought it was complaining about it's own missing module. But 
there's no use flag for sqlite in fail2ban. So then I looked at python 
itself.  Sure enough, the sqlite use flag was disabled. So I turned it 
on and re-emerged python. I also fixed a couple flags on sqlite itself 
and re-emerged it. STILL I get this error. How do I fix this?

Re: [gentoo-user] fail2ban can't find sqlite?

[Michael Orlitzky]

On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 18:46 -0700, Dan Egli wrote:
> 
> At first I thought it was complaining about it's own missing module. But 
> there's no use flag for sqlite in fail2ban. So then I looked at python 
> itself.  Sure enough, the sqlite use flag was disabled. So I turned it 
> on and re-emerged python. I also fixed a couple flags on sqlite itself 
> and re-emerged it. STILL I get this error. How do I fix this?
> 

Just a guess: did you rebuild EVERY version of python, or just one? It
could be that fail2ban is running under a version that you didn't re-
emerge.

Re: [gentoo-user] fail2ban can't find sqlite?

[Alexey Mishustin]

вс, 7 февр. 2021 г. в 04:47, Dan Egli <dan@newideatest.site>:

Hi Dan,

> 2021-02-06 18:30:28,128 fail2ban.server         [32124]: ERROR Unable to
> import fail2ban database module as sqlite is not available.

Some debugging from
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/2608#issuecomment-576450793
:

fail2ban-python --version
fail2ban-python -c 'import sqlite3; print("ok")'
fail2ban-python -c 'from fail2ban.server.database import Fail2BanDb;
print("ok")'

-- 
Best regards,
Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] fail2ban can't find sqlite?

[Dan Egli]

You were right. With the debugging tips from Alex Mishustin I was able 
to determine that I had rebuilt 3.9 while fail2ban was using 3.8. I did 
what I SHOULD have done in the first place and did an emerge -DN 
fail2ban. That caused portage to see that Python 3.8 needed to be 
rebuilt, and it did so. Now fail2ban is able to access the sqlite database.

Thanks!

On 2/6/2021 7:03 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 18:46 -0700, Dan Egli wrote:
>> At first I thought it was complaining about it's own missing module. But
>> there's no use flag for sqlite in fail2ban. So then I looked at python
>> itself.  Sure enough, the sqlite use flag was disabled. So I turned it
>> on and re-emerged python. I also fixed a couple flags on sqlite itself
>> and re-emerged it. STILL I get this error. How do I fix this?
>>
> Just a guess: did you rebuild EVERY version of python, or just one? It
> could be that fail2ban is running under a version that you didn't re-
> emerge.
>
>
>