Am Freitag, 23. Dezember 2016, 20:50:29 CET schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > On 2016-12-23 20:33:15 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I just downgraded to atop 1.26 and then upgraded to atop 2.26 twice. > > It just worked. Anytime I downgraded to atop 1.26 there was no > > /run/pacct_shadow.d present anymore. So it seems that on downgrading > > from from atop 2.26 to 1.26 atopacctd was properly stopped as it > > then removes its files and directories. (I didn´t check for the > > presence of atopacctd process.) > > But if atopacctd is killed with SIGKILL (the kernel can kill random > processes like that), the reinstallation[*] no longer works.
Vincent, I do not say there isn´t an opportunity to improve the current situation. The bug is reported (again #842136, and Marc merged this your bug report with mine). Yet it isn´t release critical. It is highly unlikely that the kernel would kill atop with SIGKILL in an OOM situation and it certainly doesn´t make the package unusable. I also reported > [*] apt install --reinstall atop/experimental as Bug#849226 atop: reinstallation fails. Please add any additional information about reinstallation failure there in order to avoid using this bug report for several issues. Reinstallation on my system fails due to a *different* reason and with a different error message than than an existing / run/pacct_shadow.d Please relax, there is nothing that can´t still be fixed and there is nothing release critical in here. Thanks, -- Martin
