At all my system (20+ servers) fcron ends up with following: gawriloff@falcon-cl2 ~ $ ps ugaxww | grep defunct root 22587 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs 14:46 0:00 [sh] <defunct> Those defunct process in fact system run-crons from cronbase (as suggested in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml#doc_chap4): gawriloff@falcon-cl2 ~ $ sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep 22587 Nov 22 14:46:17 falcon-cl2 fcron[22586]: Job /usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons started for user root (pid 22587) And in fact there is two fcron process: gawriloff@falcon-cl2 ~ $ ps ugaxww | grep fcron root 22586 0.0 0.0 48596 1572 ? S 14:46 0:00 /usr/sbin/fcron -c /etc/fcron/fcron.conf root 24590 0.0 0.0 10716 508 ? Ss Oct01 1:17 /usr/sbin/fcron -c /etc/fcron/fcron.conf One is master and second one is spawned to run the job: gawriloff@falcon-cl2 ~ $ sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep 22586 Nov 22 14:46:17 falcon-cl2 fcron[22586]: pam_unix(fcron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Nov 22 14:46:17 falcon-cl2 fcron[22586]: Job /usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons started for user root (pid 22587) It seems is something wrong either with fcron itself or with run-crons. Any ideas? Reproducible: Always
Please post your `emerge --info sys-process/fcron' output in a comment.
Portage 2.1.11.31 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.5.4, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.0.31 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.0.31-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5310_@_1.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 3.1.8 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.1.5 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo matsuu barzog-overlay swegener x-layman ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-j2 --load-average=4 -uN" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg ccache config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://falcon-cl4.telecom.by:8080/admin/gentoo/" LANG="ru_RU.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/matsuu /var/lib/layman/barzog-overlay /var/lib/layman/swegener /var/lib/layman" SYNC="rsync://falcon-cl4.telecom.by/gentoo-portage" USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre pppd readline session sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en ru" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-process/fcron-3.0.6-r1 was built with the following: USE="pam -debug (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-fr" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona"
It appears that the same problem is filled a year ago in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388371 According to log I see same defunct run-crons processes
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 388371 ***
