cron.daily reports apticron RTNETLINK answers: Address family not supported by protocol
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| apticron (Debian) |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
|
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| apticron (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apticron
We have apticron installed on a VPS installation of Ubuntu 8.04 hosted by Parallels Virtuozzo. When the cron.daily tries to run, we are receiving the following error:
/etc/cron.
RTNETLINK answers: Address family not supported by protocol
Dump terminated
Searching we found this bug open against Debian:
"apticron: RTNETLINK answers: Address family not supported by protocol"
http://
Following is the ifconfig from the VPS:
$ ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:
TX packets:
RX bytes:182857405
venet0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-
inet addr:127.0.0.1 P-t-P:127.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.
UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5466079 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7044455 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
RX bytes:670905552 (639.8 MB) TX bytes:7652562213 (7.1 GB)
venet0:0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-
inet addr:xxx.
UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
Which interface venet0:0 is the IP address we know to access the server via. (Real address replaced with x's.)
| Felix Geyer (debfx) wrote | #1 |
| Michael Lueck (mlueck) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in apticron (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
| Changed in apticron (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Michael Lueck (mlueck) wrote | #3 |
Which version of apticron do you have installed?