Hello Lance, On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 12:22:07PM +0000, Lance Lin wrote: > Thank you for your report. I'm happy to work on this.
Thank you very much, this is highly appreciated.
> > So cron.weekly is now overdue and cron.daily did not get touched since
> > the 5th, consistent with the update of the package.
> >
>
> > Cron itself works, cron.hourly (which is not managed by anacron)
> > works.
> >
>
> > I'm continuing to investigate, but I'm inclined to raise the severity.
>
> Can you check to see if the anacron service is running? Richard Newton replied
> in the thread and said the service was not running after the upgrade and it
> worked
> after manually starting it.
helge@twentytwo:~$ ps aux | grep ana
helge 6448 0.0 0.0 7036 2272 tty4 S+ 22:08 0:00 grep ana
root@twentytwo:~# systemctl status anacron.service
◈ anacron.service - Run anacron jobs
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/anacron.service; disabled; preset:
enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:anacron
man:anacrontab
> The change I made was very small, adding 'TimeoutStopSec=infinity' to the
> service
> based on an improvement that a user provided. I don't think this caused the
> issue
> you are seeing.
>
> I was able to verify that if I manually start the service, the
> cron.weekly/cron.daily
> are updated with the current time. The upgrade went fine on my end but I
> would like
>
> to track this down.
>
> Perhaps the issue is that the service was already running when the upgrade
> happens
>
> that the "new" service doesn't start? If so, I could add a preinst script to
> stop
> the anacron service if it is running.
Do you want me to try out something else, or should I now try to start it?
Btw., this machine is rebooted daily (i.e. only runs a few hours a day), so I
would have expected that after the next reboot anacron would come up …
Greetings
Helge
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