Package: logrotate Version: 3.7.8-6 Severity: normal
For months I've been getting zombie logrotate processes. Some googling finds bugs like bug#474114 (stunnel4) and bug#419992 (lighttpd), both of which should be fixed by now. I see several of my logrotate.d entries have postrotate clauses, but it's hard to know what to know how to debug the problem without laboriously disabling one and waiting for it to be fixed (or not) on the nightly run. Running logrotate from the command line works fine & produces no output (dependant on the age of the log files in question I suppose). Regardless of which package is at fault here, I think it's an architectural bug if it's so easy for a client to produce a hang. At the least, having a debugging guide for this sort of problem would be very helpful: groveling around in /proc looking at file descriptors didn't give me at least any indication of where the problem might be. -- Package-specific info: Contents of /etc/logrotate.d total 112 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194 Apr 20 2010 apache2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173 Nov 18 2010 apt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 Apr 7 2005 aptitude -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138 Apr 15 2010 autotrust -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 384 Mar 29 2005 base-config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 215 Apr 16 2008 checksecurity -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209 Jul 12 2005 clamav-daemon -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230 Apr 24 2010 clamav-freshclam -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 Oct 1 2009 consolekit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 Jul 23 2008 cups -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 286 Apr 13 17:05 denyhosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Jul 30 2010 dpkg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261 May 14 17:34 dspam -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 Apr 25 2005 heimdal-kdc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139 Oct 9 2005 horde3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1505 Nov 7 2008 mailman -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105 Feb 24 15:33 mediatomb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74 Apr 17 2005 mrtg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 837 Jul 23 2008 mysql-server -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 146 Aug 16 2006 ntop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157 Nov 25 2009 pm-utils -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94 May 5 2005 ppp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 Jan 29 2008 razor -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 322 Jul 14 2010 samba -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68 Apr 17 2005 scrollkeeper -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 222 Jan 20 2009 squid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298 Jul 21 19:30 stunnel4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Jun 18 01:35 winbind -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages logrotate depends on: ii anacron 2.3-14 cron-like program that doesn't go ii base-passwd 3.5.23 Debian base system master password ii cron 3.0pl1-118 process scheduling daemon ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpopt0 1.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1.1 SELinux runtime shared libraries Versions of packages logrotate recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent ii mailx 1:20081101-2 Transitional package for mailx ren logrotate suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
