The utility "at" does not work. Always reports the error, "Cannot give away file: Operation not permitted"

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

$ at now+1minute
at> ls
at> <EOT>

The last line is produced by typing in ctrl-D to end input.

at reports the error:

Cannot give away file: Operation not permitted.

This occurs even if the user trying to run at is root.

[Kenneth P. Turvey (ktectropy)]

Somehow this bug ended up assigned to the wrong project, but I can't see
how to reassign it. Anybody that knows how should probably move it to
the project that contains at.

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 19:57 +0000, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> $ at now+1minute
> at> ls
> at> <EOT>
>
> The last line is produced by typing in ctrl-D to end input.
>
> at reports the error:
>
> Cannot give away file: Operation not permitted.
>
> This occurs even if the user trying to run at is root.
>
> ** Affects: launchpad-report-tool
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

[Adam Fabian (awfabian+launchpad)]

Reproduced on a fully updated 7.04 system on Nov 3, 2007, again, even for root.

[Adam Fabian (awfabian+launchpad)]

It seemed to be resolved by forcing the removal of "at" and reinstalling the package. I think it was a file permissions problem that happened when the package was upgraded, but I don't know.

[Numérigraphe (numerigraphe)]

This happend to me on a Hardy server hosting vmware server 2.0. Don't know what exactly broke. apt-get remove --purge at && apt-get install ubuntu-standard fixed it.
Lionel