pam upgrade broke cron
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pam (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: unattended-upgrades
Today, unattended-upgrade upgraded PAM:
# fgrep pam /var/log/dpkg.log |grep upgrade
2011-05-31 06:47:18 upgrade libpam0g 1.1.1-4ubuntu2 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.2
2011-05-31 06:47:20 upgrade libpam-modules 1.1.1-4ubuntu2 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.2
2011-05-31 06:47:24 upgrade libpam-runtime 1.1.1-4ubuntu2 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.2
After this, cron was broken:
May 31 06:46:01 dns-cbf CRON[15914]: pam_unix(
May 31 06:46:01 dns-cbf CRON[15914]: pam_unix(
May 31 06:47:01 dns-cbf CRON[16042]: pam_unix(
May 31 06:47:01 dns-cbf CRON[16042]: pam_unix(
May 31 06:48:01 dns-cbf CRON[16833]: PAM unable to dlopen(
May 31 06:48:01 dns-cbf CRON[16833]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/
May 31 06:48:01 dns-cbf CRON[16833]: pam_unix(
May 31 06:49:01 dns-cbf CRON[16893]: PAM unable to dlopen(
May 31 06:49:01 dns-cbf CRON[16893]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/
May 31 06:49:01 dns-cbf CRON[16893]: pam_unix(
May 31 06:50:01 dns-cbf CRON[16959]: PAM unable to dlopen(
May 31 06:50:01 dns-cbf CRON[16959]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/
Why was cron not being restarted as required by a PAM update? The solution was to manually restart cron on all affected machines :(
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.62ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 31 10:22:22 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
I can confirm the problem and restarting cron appears to be a solution.