at -l intermittently prints "Cannot stat in /var/spool/cron/atjobs: No such file or directory"

[Daniel Barrett]

Intermittently, when I run:

  $ at -l

it prints this error message for some of its jobs:

  Cannot stat in /var/spool/cron/atjobs: No such file or directory

Example output:

  $ at -l
  13 Fri Nov 1 21:00:00 2013 a jsmith
  5 Wed Sep 11 21:00:00 2013 a jsmith
  32 Tue Sep 10 07:00:00 2013 a jsmith
  11 Mon Oct 21 21:00:00 2013 a jsmith
  15 Sat Feb 1 21:00:00 2014 a jsmith
  14 Fri Nov 15 09:00:00 2013 a jsmith
  Cannot stat in /var/spool/cron/atjobs: No such file or directory

To reproduce, run "at -l" 10-20 times in rapid succession.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: at 3.1.13-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 7 10:51:07 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-31 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: at
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.at.deny: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/at.deny']

[Daniel Barrett (dbarrett-m)]

When the error message appears, some of the at jobs are missing from the displayed list.

[Daniel Barrett (dbarrett-m)]

Sorry, this was due to (my) user error. You can close this bug report.

I recently built this machine and naively transferred some at jobs from another machine. They had the wrong file permissions.