[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#479141: marked as done (apt: cron.daily script delays other cron tasks)

Your message dated Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:33 +0200
with message-id <87zllgex7u.fsf@gmx.de>
and subject line Re: Bug#479141: apt: cron.daily script delays other cron tasks
has caused the Debian Bug report #479141,
regarding apt: cron.daily script delays other cron tasks
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org
immediately.)


-- 
479141: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479141
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.12
Severity: normal

In the last few days I was wondering whether my system was
broken. Saw messages like that in xconsole:

,----
| May  3 06:40:19 debian anacron[2600]: Job `cron.daily' started
| May  3 06:40:19 debian anacron[2745]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2008-05-03
`----

and then nothing happened for quite some time.  You probably can figure
out more easily than me why that is the case, it would be nice if your
cron.daily script could check whether it should do anything *before*
sleeping up to 30 minutes and holding up everyone else.

Don't know if cron runs the scripts in parallel to avoid the problem,
but anacron is a bit dump:

,----
| May  3 06:35:19 debian anacron[2600]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min.
| May  3 06:35:19 debian anacron[2600]: Jobs will be executed sequentially
`----


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.6
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring   2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                    2.7-10          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.3.0-4       GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6               4.3.0-4         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.15

On 2008-05-03 07:49 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> In the last few days I was wondering whether my system was
> broken. Saw messages like that in xconsole:
>
> ,----
> | May  3 06:40:19 debian anacron[2600]: Job `cron.daily' started
> | May  3 06:40:19 debian anacron[2745]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2008-05-03
> `----
>
> and then nothing happened for quite some time.  You probably can figure
> out more easily than me why that is the case, it would be nice if your
> cron.daily script could check whether it should do anything *before*
> sleeping up to 30 minutes and holding up everyone else.

This is fixed in apt 0.7.15.  Maybe it was already in 0.7.14, but only
yesterday I accepted the new /etc/cron.daily/apt conffile (had put an
"exit 0" at the top of it before).  Today's cron job for apt took only
one second, so the bug can be closed.

Sven

--- End Message ---
Reply to: