Hello Lin, thanks for your analysis and answer. On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 12:34:33PM +0000, Lance Lin wrote: > I believe I've found the issue! Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you > but I believe I have an answer.
Great! Thanks for your research.
> It seems to be related to an inadequate cleanup. I don't have a great
> explanation but I found something that works.
>
> The -33 version that removed the symlinks *somehow* (I am not sure) corrupted
> the whole install. I've found that
> uninstalling anacron, removing the files associated with anacron and then
> re-installing the package (-35) will
>
> yield a service that works.
>
> Specifically, I removed:
> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-*/ ... anacron files [might not be
> needed?]
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/anacron.* files [might not be needed?]
> /var/spool/anacron
I don't have them in my backups.
> /etc/anacrontab [I think this file is the problem!!]
This one is unchanged compared to older versions before the problem.
> Since you already have cron files, perhaps you could back them up, uninstall
> anacron, remove the files, and then
> re-install anacron (-35), and then overlay your existing cron files? Would
> you be so kind to test this out on
>
> your machine and see if this fixes it?
I will do this; however, I'm currently travelling with very little
access to my testing machine thus I will do this next weekend, I hope
this is ok.
> Thank you for your help in tracking this down!
You are welcome, thanks for tracking this down!
Greetings
Helge
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