Latest cron (3.0pl1-84 ?) doesn't install

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #262103 http://bugs.debian.org/262103

[Steve Greenland (steveg)]

Yes, I made a stupid mistake. The fixed packages
were uploaded yesterday, and should be available at
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cron/ soon. (They been
moved from incoming.debian.org in the last hour or so....)

--
Steve Greenland
    The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world. -- seen on the net

[Gunnar Hofmann (gunnar-xbill)]

Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-84

Hi,

same problem over here, seems like the package is missing the /usr/bin
and /usr/sbin contents, as there is only /usr/share/doc and
/usr/share/man in that package.

While configuring the package the following error occurs:

zebra:~# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up cron (3.0pl1-84) ...
chgrp: cannot access `/usr/bin/crontab': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing cron (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  cron

I am running unstable

regards,

Gunnar Hofmann

[Adam D. Barratt (debian-bts-adam-barratt)]

Hi,

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 20:12, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> Package: cron
> Version: 3.0pl1-84
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
> Well, This is a nice one !

This bug has already been reported seven times (see the "Grave
functionality bugs - resolved" section of
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=cron), and has been
fixed in -86, which should propagate to mirrors in tonight's update.

Regards,

Adam

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #262103 http://bugs.debian.org/262103

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Message-Id: <E1BqGKa-00013p-00@yod>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:12:43 +0200
From: Emmanuel Charpentier <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: Latest cron (3.0pl1-84 ?) doesn't install

Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-84
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Well, This is a nice one !

yod:~# dpkg -l cron
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
iF cron 3.0pl1-84 management of regular background processing

Huh ? the *cron* package, unconfigurable ?

yod:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up cron (3.0pl1-84) ...
chgrp: cannot access `/usr/bin/crontab': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing cron (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cron
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
yod:~#

Well ...

yod:~# ls -l /usr/bin/cron*
ls: /usr/bin/cron*: No such file or directory
yod:~# ls -l /usr/sbin/cron*
ls: /usr/sbin/cron*: No such file or directory
yod:~# ls -l /sbin/cron*
ls: /sbin/cron*: No such file or directory
yod:~# ls -l /bin/cron*
ls: /bin/cron*: No such file or directory

Ayayayyyyy ! No cron in view.

I flagged this bug grave, because the package is unusable. It should have
been critical, since a *lot* of Debian programs vitally depend on cron.

I'll try to downgrade. But I'm not really at ease !

     Emmanuel Charpentier

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6ec
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro

Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.58 Add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t

-- no debconf information

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:00:25 +0200
From: Gunnar Hofmann <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Cron Package cron_3.0pl1-84_i386.deb broken

Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-84

Hi,

same problem over here, seems like the package is missing the /usr/bin
and /usr/sbin contents, as there is only /usr/share/doc and
/usr/share/man in that package.

While configuring the package the following error occurs:

zebra:~# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up cron (3.0pl1-84) ...
chgrp: cannot access `/usr/bin/crontab': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing cron (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  cron

I am running unstable

regards,

Gunnar Hofmann

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:51:18 -0500
From: Steve Greenland <email address hidden>
To: Emmanuel Charpentier <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#262103: Latest cron (3.0pl1-84 ?) doesn't install

Yes, I made a stupid mistake. The fixed packages
were uploaded yesterday, and should be available at
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cron/ soon. (They been
moved from incoming.debian.org in the last hour or so....)

--
Steve Greenland
    The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world. -- seen on the net

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Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:01:39 +0100
From: "Adam D. Barratt" <email address hidden>
To: Emmanuel Charpentier <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#262103: Latest cron (3.0pl1-84 ?) doesn't install

Hi,

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 20:12, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> Package: cron
> Version: 3.0pl1-84
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
> Well, This is a nice one !

This bug has already been reported seven times (see the "Grave
functionality bugs - resolved" section of
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=cron), and has been
fixed in -86, which should propagate to mirrors in tonight's update.

Regards,

Adam

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

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