Package: logrotate Version: 3.11.0-0.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
logrotate does not ever recover from a corrupted statefile. Reproducer : - Install logrotate - Run by hand "/etc/cron.daily/logrotate" # The first logrotate run will generate the statefile "var/lib/logrotate/status" - Modify "/var/lib/logrotate/status" by removing the first line in order to corrupt the file. - Re-run "/etc/cron.daily/logrotate" and you will get something like this "error: bad top line in state file /var/lib/logrotate/status" every time you run logrotate. logrotate never recovers if the statefile is corrupted unless you remove it or fix the corruption by hand. The following upstream[1] commit introduce in 3.12.0 version is fixing the situation[2] [1] - https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/commit/b9d82003002c98370e4131a7e43c76afcd23306a # git clone https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate.git # git describe --contains b9d8200 3.12.0~18 [2] - https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/issues/45 -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
