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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: /etc/cron.daily/apt exits with return code 1, despite being configured to do nothing
- From: Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:10:38 +0100
- Message-id: <20080105181038.4557.78771.reportbug@homebrew>
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.9
Severity: normal
Hi!
As far as I understand (see APT configuration below),
/etc/cron.daily/apt should do absolutely nothing on my system.
Hence, it should basically behave as /bin/true .
Unfortunately, it seems that it can also behave as /bin/false
in some scenarios.
I upgraded to version 0.7.9 yesterday, used my box for some time
and then halted the system.
Today, I booted the system, logged in, and started doing some
things.
After a short time I received a local mail message from Anacron:
Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on $MY_HOST_NAME
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:16:47 +0100
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/apt exited with return code 1
It seems that the problem is related to bug #454561, but it's not
the same. If I read /etc/cron.daily/apt correctly, what happened
is that, when Anacron ran it, I was just in the middle of a manual
aptitude update ; aptitude safe-upgrade
As a consequence, /etc/cron.daily/apt could not lock the cache and
exited with exit status 1.
My problem is: I didn't asked APT to do anything in an unattended
manner, why should /etc/cron.daily/apt attempt to lock the cache
and exit *with errors* when it fails to do so?!?
I think that /etc/cron.daily/apt should *entirely* refrain from
checking cache lockability or performing any other actions,
*if* APT configuration implies that the script should do nothing
at all.
When APT configuration tells that /etc/cron.daily/apt should do
nothing at all, it should behave exactly as /bin/true ...
Is there anything I failed to understand?
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb http://mir2.ovh.net/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://mir2.ovh.net/debian/ testing main
deb http://debian.intergenia.de/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://debian.intergenia.de/debian/ testing main
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.07.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: apt
Source-Version: 0.7.14
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
apt, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
apt-doc_0.7.14_all.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/apt-doc_0.7.14_all.deb
apt-transport-https_0.7.14_i386.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/apt-transport-https_0.7.14_i386.deb
apt-utils_0.7.14_i386.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/apt-utils_0.7.14_i386.deb
apt_0.7.14.dsc
to pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.7.14.dsc
apt_0.7.14.tar.gz
to pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.7.14.tar.gz
apt_0.7.14_i386.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.7.14_i386.deb
libapt-pkg-dev_0.7.14_i386.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/libapt-pkg-dev_0.7.14_i386.deb
libapt-pkg-doc_0.7.14_all.deb
to pool/main/a/apt/libapt-pkg-doc_0.7.14_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 459344@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> (supplier of updated apt package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:19:12 +0200
Source: apt
Binary: apt apt-doc libapt-pkg-dev libapt-pkg-doc apt-utils apt-transport-https
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 0.7.14
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
Description:
apt - Advanced front-end for dpkg
apt-doc - Documentation for APT
apt-transport-https - APT https transport
apt-utils - APT utility programs
libapt-pkg-dev - Development files for APT's libapt-pkg and libapt-inst
libapt-pkg-doc - Documentation for APT development
Closes: 322470 387141 438803 459344 473360 479122 479313 479326 479342 479379 479403 479426 479452 479748 479777 479792 479847 479871 480125 480150 480561 480662 482476
Changes:
apt (0.7.14) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Mark a message from dselect backend as translatable
Thanks to Frédéric Bothamy for the patch
Closes: #322470
.
[ Program translations ]
* Simplified Chinese updated. Closes: #473360
* Catalan fixes. Closes: #387141
* Typo fix in Greek translation. Closes: #479122
* French updated.
* Thai updated. Closes: #479313
* Italian updated. Closes: #479326
* Polish updated. Closes: #479342
* Bulgarian updated. Closes: #479379
* Finnish updated. Closes: #479403
* Korean updated. Closes: #479426
* Basque updated. Closes: #479452
* Vietnamese updated. Closes: #479748
* Russian updated. Closes: #479777
* Galician updated. Closes: #479792
* Portuguese updated. Closes: #479847
* Swedish updated. Closes: #479871
* Dutch updated. Closes: #480125
* Kurdish added. Closes: #480150
* Brazilian Portuguese updated. Closes: #480561
* Hungarian updated. Closes: #480662
.
[ Otavio Salvador ]
* Apply patch to avoid truncating of arbitrary files. Thanks to Bryan
Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net> for the patch. Closes: #482476
* Avoid using dbus if dbus-daemon isn't running. Closes: #438803
.
[ Michael Vogt ]
* debian/apt.cron.daily:
- apply patch based on the ideas of Francesco Poli for better
behavior when the cache can not be locked (closes: #459344)
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