Bug#966119: popularity-contest: Unable to find runuser due to missing /sbin/ in PATH?

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 12:26:47PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.67
> Severity: important
> 
> After enabling email on my laptop for the first time in many years, I
> discovered this message from the cron subsystem:
> 
>   From: root@mylaptop (Cron Daemon)
>   Subject: Cron <root@mylaptop>    test -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest && /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest --crond
>   To: root@mylaptop
>   Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:50:01 +0200
> 
>   /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: 109:
>     /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: runuser: not found
> 
> The laptop installation has survived many upgrades, so the problem might
> have bee introduced a long time ago.  This seem to be the same problem
> reported in <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/709892 >, which was believed
> to be solved then.
> 
> Here are some pieces of information that might be relevant:
> 
> root@minerva:~# ls -l /etc/cron*/popu*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4571 mai   20  2018 /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  124 juni  22  2015 /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest

Hello Petter, long time no see!

Could you compare your /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest
with the official one in 1.67 ?

Please not that popcon 1.70 do not use runuser at all.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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