Hi,
I am running into the same issue.
When starting the system with anacron, the /etc/cron.daily/apt may block
the whole cron.daily jobs.
My proposal is to detect if /etc/cron.daily/apt has been started by cron
or just by anacron.
The attached patch should fix this by checking (by using pstree) if
there is a plain 'cron' process in the list of the parents.
Regards
Mathias
--- cron.daily/apt.orig 2016-02-04 13:09:56.774148517 +0100
+++ cron.daily/apt 2016-02-04 13:10:11.221364868 +0100
@@ -422,7 +422,15 @@
# sleep random amount of time to avoid hitting the
# mirrors at the same time
-random_sleep
+# However do only sleep if this job has been started by cron
+# and not by anacron
+if which pstree > /dev/null; then
+ if pstree -s $$ | grep -q -- '--cron--' ; then
+ random_sleep
+ fi
+else
+ random_sleep
+fi
check_power || exit 0
# include default system language so that "apt-get update" will
