[Bug 707311] Re: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest don't run due to missing/etc/popularity-contest.conf

[Cd-MaN]

For what it's worth: this still happened on a less-than-a-week old EC2
micros instance with with 12.04.1. I'm not sure what the process for
getting this fix into the image is (should I have chosen a different
image when spinning up the instance?) but I thought I report it.

The fix is (as root):

echo > /etc/popularity-contest.conf
dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest

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Title:
  /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest don't run due to missing/etc
  /popularity-contest.conf

Status in “popularity-contest” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: popularity-contest

  Anacron mails the following message to root:

  /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
  .: 17: Can't open /etc/popularity-contest.conf
  run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest exited with return code 127

  Looking in /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest it is clear that the culprit is the line
  . /etc/popularity-contest.conf

  Since /etc/popularity-contest.conf isn't installed the script fails.

  Description:	Ubuntu 10.10
  Release:	10.10

  popularity-contest:
    Installerad: 1.48ubuntu1
    Kandidat:    1.48ubuntu1
    Versionstabell:
   *** 1.48ubuntu1 0
          500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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