Bug#1052053: popularity-contest: race condition between the two cron jobs
On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 01:37:46PM +0100, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote:
> > Before we can report a bug against debianutils, we need to find a way
> > to reproduce the problem easily.
>
> I finally identified how it got triggered here, but this is not a
> lightweight way to reproduce it: by accident, two LXC containers ended
> up using the same root. Leading to each one running the cron job on its
> own, at the same time, targeting the same /var/log/ path.
Thanks, this is very helful.
However, I do not think sharing /var is a supported configuration.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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