I have anacron and vixie-cron installed in 2004.3. I have been receiving a number of e-mails at cron.daily run time relating to bzip2 and hard-linking errors during the updatedb run. On running a ps ax during the cron.daily run, I observed two instances of run-parts cron.daily executing updatedb. Looking at the header of /usr/sbin/run/parts, there appear to have been some locking and race conditions in the past. It appears there may still be some more unresolve ones. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have anacron run at boot 2. Execute a ps ax during the updatedb state 3. Observe multiple instances of run-parts cron.daily and updatedb
It is possible for two occurences of cron to run at once (atleast used to be). Old servers that I used to maintain having large cronjob-scripts, we always did locking manually in the script.
This depends onto 26392: until that is fixed, this won't work.
People, anybody fixing _a bug_? The base bug is trivial to solve (scripts have been supplied)... What are you waiting for?
well - we reencountered this same problem once again and are working towards a solution on bug #235174. sorry about the gross delay... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 235174 ***
