[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

[Steve Langasek]

gouri,

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 09:02:28AM -0000, gouri wrote:
> It's June 2014 and this bug still hits the latest LTS release Trusty
> Thar.

Under what circumstances are you seeing this problem?  Is it a regular
occurrence for you due to something like comment #34 (booting just
before 7:30 every day), or an issue with a previous instance of anacron
being hung?

I don't think that we want to "solve" this by suppressing the mails from
anacron. anacron itself should be made more resilient to hung jobs, and
we should fix the bugs currently causing the apt cron job to hang.  If
we address both of these points, the symptom of receiving mails about
already-running anacron jobs should solve itself.

** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  start: Job is already running: anacron

Status in “anacron” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: anacron

  Every day cron sends me this email:

    Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:30:01 +1200
    From: Cron Daemon <root at hostname>
    To: root at hostname
    Subject: Cron <root at hostname> start -q anacron || :

    start: Job is already running: anacron

  I've tried to find out why it was running twice, but I could only find
  one copy of anacron in the cron directories...

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