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has caused the Debian Bug report #545491,
regarding apticron hangs with all spawned apt-get instances sleeping for
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Package: apticron
Version: 1.1.27
Severity: important
The apticron spawned by cron was sleeping for days, rendering aptitude
and apt-get useless because of the held lock.
After killing the sleeping command "apt-get -qq update" I received the
following output of cron per mail:
--------
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/usr/sbin/apticron: line 111: 26889 Terminated
/usr/bin/apt-get -qq update
--------
Afterwards the command "/usr/sbin/apticron" typed in by hand runs
successfully.
Perhaps, this has to do with the following, mentioned in the apt-get
manpage (see last line):
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-q, --quiet
Quiet; produces output suitable for logging, omitting progress
indicators. More qÂŽs will produce more quiet up to a maximum of 2.
You can also use -q=# to set the quiet level, overriding the
configuration file. Note that quiet level 2 implies -y, you should
never use -qq without a no-action modifier such as -d,
---------
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apticron depends on:
ii apt 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii debconf [debconf-2 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii ucf 3.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages apticron recommends:
ii apt-listchanges 2.83 package change history notificatio
ii iproute 20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
apticron suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
apticron/notification: root
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--- Begin Message ---
As stated in the last forwarded email, this issue seems to be caused by an
incident which is not related to apticron. Thanks to Kai Moritz for reporting.
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Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
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