Hi Richard
Strange!
Can you try to copy cron-apt and comment this:
if [ -t 0 ]; then
RUNIMMEDIATELY="yes"
fi
And then run manually.
bash -x your-cron-apt-copy
It would help to understand what happens.
// Ola
On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 23:30, Richard Rosner <rros...@fsmuw.rwth-aachen.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
> sleep 456 and sleep 1200 work without any problems. Also, I don't have any
> special kernel. Currently, Output of uname -a is "Linux ts 6.1.0-1-amd64 #1
> SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.4-1 (2023-01-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux". I don't
> even have any other repository active other than the typical Debian ones
> (testing, testing-updates, testing-backports, testing-security).
>
> Also, I'm noticing cron-apt becoming less reliable in the last weeks (I
> actually wanted to report this before Christmas, but something must have
> went wrong so I only got the email, but it probably was never sent to the
> bugreport mailing list). It used to reliably send mails every day at which
> it finds any updates. But in the last weeks, it mostly doesn't do that
> anymore. The log in journalctl/syslog always shows the same text (only
> difference in the checksum and so on). RUNSLEEP has been commented out for
> weeks now.
>
> Richard
>
> Am Montag, 23. Januar 2023 22:10 CET, schrieb Ola Lundqvist <
> o...@inguza.com>:
>
>
> Hi
>
> When you run cron-apt from a terminal RUNSLEEP is not used. This is why it
> works when running manually.
>
> Please try running the following in a command
>
> sleep 456
>
> or any large number for sleep.
>
> Do you have some special kernel? The kernel should not give that problem.
>
> cron-apt do not do anything magic. It just executes sleep
>
> It could also be that it is not the sleep command itself. It could be the
> random number generation done a few lines earlier in that script.
>
> // Ola
>
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 15:12, Richard Rosner <rros...@fsmuw.rwth-aachen.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Package: cron-apt
>> Version: 0.13.0.1
>> Severity: important
>> X-Debbugs-Cc: sub...@bugs.debian.org
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> when running cron-apt as shipped it works normal, running at 4 am and
>> sending an email when anything can be updated. But when adding the
>> recommended RUNSLEEP variable to the config, the only thing that happens is
>> throwing a kernel error at 4 am:
>>
>> 2022-12-19T04:00:01.425628+01:00 ts CRON[75874]: (root) CMD (test -x
>> /usr/sbin/cron-apt && /usr/sbin/cron-apt)
>> 2022-12-19T04:00:01.468596+01:00 ts kernel: [276052.628108] traps:
>> cksum[75885] trap invalid opcode ip:562d9fe03cf5 sp:7ffd9b53fe20 error:0 in
>> cksum[562d9fded000+17000]
>> 2022-12-19T04:00:02.525060+01:00 ts sSMTP[75887]: Sent mail for
>> r...@ts.domain.de (221 mailserver.de) uid=0 username=root outbytes=691
>>
>> Even though it says a mail is sent, it's not received. Since cron-apt
>> clearly doesn't run at all, that might be the reason. Running cron-apt
>> manually with RUNSLEEP set with "cron-apt -s" works without problems.
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>> APT prefers testing
>> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
>> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
>> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
>> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>>
>> Versions of packages cron-apt depends on:
>> ii apt 2.5.4
>>
>> Versions of packages cron-apt recommends:
>> ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-156
>> ii liblockfile1 1.17-1+b1
>> ii ssmtp [mail-transport-agent] 2.64-11
>>
>> cron-apt suggests no packages.
>>
>> -- Configuration Files:
>> /etc/cron-apt/config changed:
>> APTCOMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get
>> MAILTO="administra...@fsmuw.rwth-aachen.de"
>> MAILON=upgrade
>> SYSLOGON=always
>> #RUNSLEEP=3600
>>
>> -- no debconf information
>
>
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