Hi Henry
You have found the problem, so it is not so much for me to do. :-)
Basically cron-apt can only do that apt (or aptitude) can do and in
this case it fails because of a problem with the sources.list file.
A bit interesting that it was not logged though. I think that can be
improved for later releases. I think it is because errors were not
sent to the logging process.
If you run
apt-get > logfile.txt 2>&1
with the -x option enabled as I described in an earlier mail I think I
can tell that for sure.
Best regards,
// Ola
Quoting "Henry Bremridge" <henry.bremri...@xobie.com>:
Ola
Apologies was a bit too quick to send the earlier message.
1/ If any line in /etc/apt/sources.list fails then the upgrade fails
2/ If sources.list "works" then cron-apt works
3/ I have tried this with both apt-get and aptitude
My current system now is as follows
- removed the secure-testing lines
- reusing aptitude
Again please advise if you wish me try anything else
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On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 02:40:36PM +0100, henryb...@fsfe.org wrote:
Ola
Solved I think. Second run worked: see below
Just to be clear .. :)
In file /usr/sbin/cron-apt
I changed line 1
from #!/bin/sh
to #!/bin/bash -x
Then in root I ran the command
cron-apt > logfile.txt 2&>1
First Run
Logfile.txt: no contents
/etc/cron-apt/log
CRON-APT RUN [2]: Mon May 4 14:09:06 BST 2009
CRON-APT ACTION: 0-update
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get update -o quiet=2
W: Failed to fetch
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists/testing/Release Unable to find
expected entry contrib/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file
(malformed Release file?)
W: Failed to fetch
http://secure-testing.debian.net/dists/testing/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages
404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch
http://secure-testing.debian.net/dists/testing/updates/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch
http://secure-testing.debian.net/dists/testing/updates/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch
http://secure-testing.debian.net/dists/squeeze/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages
404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
Second Run
I changed the sources.list file removing the failed to fetch lines
Then ran the command again
here logfile.txt was again empty
/etc/cron-apt/log was as follows
CRON-APT RUN [2]: Mon May 4 14:25:09 BST 2009
CRON-APT ACTION: 0-update
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get update -o quiet=2
CRON-APT ACTION: 3-download
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get autoclean -y
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade -y -o
APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ie all seemed to work
At the moment I have kept the secure-testing lines removed
Let me know what you want me to do next
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On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:00:44PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hi Henry
>
> In the first line of cron-apt binary you have a line telling #!/bin/bash
> (or #!/bin/sh).
>
> Change that line to
> #!/bin/bash -x
>
> Then run the command and give me the output.
>
> cron-apt > logfile.txt 2&>1
>
> Best regards,
>
> // Ola
>
> Quoting "Henry Bremridge" <henry.bremri...@xobie.com>:
>
>> Ola
>>
>> Be glad to help if and where I can.
>>
>> When you say add a few "echo something" into cron-apt, please tell me
>> EXACTLY what you want me to do.
>>
>> :) I am happy enough using the command line and I am happy enough to add
>> things to a config file, but todate I have only followed "recipes".
>>
>> --
>> Henry
>>
>> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:08:44AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>>> Hi Henry
>>>
>>> Interesting. I have to look into this. If you want to help you can put
>>> in a few "echo something" lines into cron-apt to determine where it
>>> exits.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> // Ola
>>
>
>
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