cron.daily/logrotate: cat: /var/run/landscape-client.pid: No such file or directory

[Matt Zimmerman]

Binary package hint: landscape-client

I received the following email from the logrotate daily cron job:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
cat: /var/run/landscape-client.pid: No such file or directory
kill: 2: Usage: kill [-s sigspec | -signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
kill -l [exitstatus]
error: error running postrotate script for /var/log/landscape/sysinfo.log
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

landscape is not currently running:

mizar:[~] ps aux |grep landscape
mdz 30063 0.0 0.0 2336 788 pts/4 S+ 16:29 0:00 grep landscape

Presumably the logrotate script should check whether landscape is running before attempting to signal it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: landscape-client 1.0.23-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: landscape-client
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

This was fixed in bug #271767, which has a client bzr branch of the fix. I'm linking it to this bug report too.