Re: Hanging run-parts weirdness!!!
I submited a bug...
Bug#114864: Hanging run-parts
As maintainer wrote - such problem was in previous 1.13.3 version,
but has been corrected in current version... not well.
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Sergey "BeerBong" Polyakov
chief of WebZavod (http://www.webzavod.ru)
----- Original Message -----
From: "B.C.J.O" <fade@deepsky.com>
To: "Noel Koethe" <noel@koethe.net>
Cc: "Christian Kurz" <shorty@debian.org>; <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: Hanging run-parts weirdness!!!
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Noel Koethe wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 08 Okt 2001, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > > > > 16310 pts/2 S 0:00 \_ run-parts --report
/etc/cron.daily/
> > > > > 16388 pts/2 Z 0:00 \_ [man-db <defunct>]
> > > > >
> > > > > Every time different script, and if I run every script manually
it is
> > > > > completed in a moment without problems!
> >
> > > > I have no idea what the problem is.
> > > > Maybe its a good idea to report this bug to the "debianutils"
> > > > package where run-parts belong to.
> > >
> > > No, that's wrong because run-parts is working fine, but mandb is the
> > > program which is hanging around in defunctional status. So this bug
> > > should be reported against mandb. But please look before into the
> > > cronjob in /etc/cron.daily that is calling mandb and try running the
> > > exact command manual to see if it works or if that one hangs too.
> >
> > :) No. The initial mail show many hanging jobs from cron.daily and
> > not always man.db. I tried all the cron.daily scripts many times
> > by hand and this never happened.
> > Sergey wrote now the same problems
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2001/debian-isp-200110/msg00078.html)
> > and I think this could be a run-parts problem.
>
> seems that cron isn't reaping its children correctly. I noticed this
> problem on a machine that I had moved to woody from potato. Kill off cron,
> and the zombies go away. There was a cron update a few days ago that seems
> to have lessened the problem to a certain extent. It's still a pain, tho.
> =)
>
> Brian
> fade@etc.etc.etc.
>
> "You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination
> is out of focus." -- Mark Twain
>
>
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