Package: acpid Version: 1.0.6-9 Severity: normal In the past few weeks acpid has died on my boxes on each Sunday. It all started one Sunday evening: I pressed the power button in order to shut my box down, as usual, but nothing happened. It turned out that acpid was not running: I manually started it with
# /etc/init.d/acpid start and everything got back working fine. Then I found out that the same behavior is experienced on every Sunday, on each box where I have acpid installed (one "desktop" amd64 box and one i386 laptop). I noticed that acpid log files are empty and get rotated on Sunday: ls -altrF /var/log/acpid* -rw-r----- 1 root root 620 2008-05-28 19:46 /var/log/acpid.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 root root 20 2008-06-01 10:41 /var/log/acpid.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 root root 20 2008-06-08 11:28 /var/log/acpid.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 root root 20 2008-06-15 11:29 /var/log/acpid.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2008-06-22 09:11 /var/log/acpid BTW, where is /var/log/acpid.0 ?!? This has happened since I upgraded from acpid/1.0.4-7.1 to acpid/1.0.6-9 (on Wed, May 28 2008). It seems that some cron weekly job causes acpid to die (or anyway to exit). But the only cron weekly jobs in common between the two boxes are: $ ls -l /etc/cron.weekly/[0sm]* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 312 2006-10-14 16:38 /etc/cron.weekly/0anacron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 528 2007-08-19 17:07 /etc/cron.weekly/man-db -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1133 2007-07-30 14:21 /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd The obvious suspect is /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd, but it seems it does not even care about acpid logs: # syslogd-listfiles --weekly /var/log/mail.warn /var/log/user.log /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/messages /var/log/debug /var/log/auth.log /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.log /var/log/kern.log /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/mail.info Which cron job rotates acpid log files? Why does acpid die on Sunday? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (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 acpid depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-12 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo acpid recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
