Comment 17 for bug 429009

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 16:29 +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:14:17PM -0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Could you have had packages from the ubuntu-boot PPA installed?
> >
> > The anacron that was there certainly had this bug, and anacron was one
> > of the last things to get built in the archive.
>
> I've just reproduced the bug again. I think it may only happen when the
> system has been suspended for a period of time (in recent cases, overnight).
>
> root 3858 0.0 0.0 1836 512 ? S 09:25 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95anacron resume suspend
> root 3859 0.0 0.0 2304 828 ? S 09:25 0:00 \_ start -q anacron
> root 3861 0.0 0.0 1764 580 ? Ss 09:25 0:00 anacron -s
>
> ii anacron 2.3-13.1ubuntu9
> cron-like program that doesn't go by time
>
Oh, you did. LP just delivered them out of order.

It's not actually failing - it's just running your cron scripts and
waiting for them. Probably shouldn't be waiting <g>

There's two possible fixes for this:

 1) remove "task" from /etc/init/anacron.conf

 2) add "-n" to that start invocation

I suspect that the "task" is the right one.

Scott
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