Wheee this bug manifested on my server after I upgraded Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 to 14.04.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to findutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299838 Title: /etc/cron.daily/find should be deleted when upgrading or it should use ionice -n instead of -p Status in GNU Find Utilities: New Status in “findutils” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: findutils In a fresh install of Intrepid there is no '/etc/cron.daily/find' file. However, when upgrading from Hardy to Intrepid, a previously existing '/etc/cron.daily/find' is retained (and even included in /var/lib/dpkg/info/findutils.list which I find strange). The problem with the retained '/etc/cron.daily/find' file is that it uses the 'ionice' command with a wrong argument '-p', supplying a scheduling-class specific priority value as an argument of '-p' which takes actually a PID value. The correct option would be '-n', and this is correct in the Intrepid '/etc/cron.daily/locate' coming from the locate package. The use of '-p' makes '/etc/cron.daily/find' fail with 'exit 1' randomly, depending on if there is a process with a PID equal to a priority value running in the system. If you purge 'findutils' from an upgraded Intrepid system and then reinstall it, the '/etc/cron.daily/find' file disappears and all is well. However, this should probably happen automatically when findutils is upgraded. Description: Ubuntu 8.10 Release: 8.10 Linux version 2.6.27-7-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 findutils: 4.4.0-2ubuntu3 locate: 4.4.0-2ubuntu3 both come from source package findutils To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/findutils/+bug/299838/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
