Bug#379645: debianutils: run-parts gets stuck at logrotate and never finishes cron.daily jobs

[Ahmad Khayyat]

Package: debianutils Subject: debianutils: run-parts gets stuck at logrotate and never finishes cron.daily jobs Version: 2.16.2 Severity: important anacron gets stuck everyday while performing cron.daily jobs. A typical process status (ps --forest output format) is: 26121 ?        00:00:00 anacron 27557 ?        00:00:00  \_ run-parts 29302 ?        00:00:00      \_ logrotate <defunct> logrotate returns successfully when I run it manually and doesn't show any problems. A side effect of the behavior above is that anacron doesn't get to go through the rest of the cron.daily jobs, even after I kill run-parts whenever I remember to do so (I have to do it daily :( ). This causes, among other things, my syslog files to grow large unless I manually run the sysklogd daily job. If I do not remember to kill run-parts, no daily job will ever run again. anacron fails to start and complains about an already running instance preventing it from starting. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable   APT prefers testing   APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages debianutils depends on: ii  coreutils                     5.96-3     The GNU core utilities ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii  mktemp                        1.5-2      Makes unique filenames for tempora debianutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information