On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 09:36:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Package: popularity-contest > Version: 1.70 > Severity: important > > From time to time I've been seeing cron failure mails relating to > popularity-contest on my laptop. I have seen this with both Vixie > cron and systemd-cron. > > Today I opened my laptop at around 17:53, and systemd-cron started > running cron jobs that were scheduled to run during the time it was > suspended. That included both cron.d and cron.daily jobs for > popularity-contest: > > This seems to be likely to happen on any system that remains suspended > across the times of both cron jobs. Some kind of serialisation is > required, so that only one job at a time will manipulate the log > files.
Hello Ben, I am going to upload a new popcon version that should fix this bug. If it does not, please reopen! Cheers, Bill.
