Package: at Version: 3.1.8-11 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Typing 4-6 times the command : $ while true; do echo "kill -9 0" | at now; done >/dev/null 2>/dev/null& may cause atd to crash, possibly only on SMP computers. Some more details : I found the bug accidentally on a Mandrake x86, and reproduced it on this debian sparc computer. Interestingly, I never achieved into triggering the bug on the two non-smp computers I also had access. The affected Mandrake was on a Pentium 4 with HT and had a 2.6 kernel, this one has 4 sparc processors and a 2.4 kernel, therefore, the bug seems architecture- and kernel-version- independant. Some experiments with strace -p as a root lead me to think that this was related to the speed of atd, since stracing him, and therefore making him slower, resulted either in getting the bug more quickly, or immediately. As a workaround, I suggest adding something like * * * * * killall -qs0 atd || /etc/init.d/atd --force-reload in the root's crontab until the bug gets fixed (not tested). Note that this packet (at 3.1.8-11) is common to stable, testing and unstable. Update : Last surprise : I tried to trigger the bug on a Redhat-like IA64 SMP computer, but I never achieved to do it, no matter how much I typed the line. "at -V" also shows "at version 3.1.8 [...]" on this computer, and I've the rights to use the "at" command on this computer too. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: sparc (sparc64) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages at depends on: ii exim [mail-transport-agent] 3.36-13 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent) ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
