On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:02, Thibaut VARENE<vare...@debian.org> wrote: > severity 536823 normal > tags 536823 moreinfo unreproducible
"unreproducible" - quite arguable, since several times this happened... > thanks > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Sandro Tosi<mo...@debian.org> wrote: >> Package: uptimed >> Version: 1:0.3.16-3 >> Severity: grave >> File: /usr/bin/uprecords >> >> Hello, >> once again, after a black out of the power grid, and the subsequent power off >> of the machine, the whole db of uprecords has been lost. >> >> That's not the first time it happend, and it was clamed fixed, but it's not. > > Thank you for your very helpful bugreport. you're welcome...... > Care to give me some more information? for example which ones? if you need a series of information from reporters, please write a presubj or bug script to collect them or ask the reporter to provide them > What filesystem are you using on /var? xfs > Does the .old database exist in /var/spool/uptimed ? > If yes, does it contain valid data? I'll check once at home. >> Since the only point in uprecords is to keep track of history uptime >> periords, >> loosing them makes the program completely useless, hence the RC severity. > > This has been said before, it's not a grave bug report as it doesn't > render the software useless (it works perfectly well under "normal" > use conditions, and no, a power failure is *not* a normal use > condition). sure, in the ideal situation where power goes never off, everyone has an UPS, and laptop batteries has always some charge left to save your unsaved work. >> uptimed/interval: 60 > > How about changing that to something "reasonable" e.g. 600 seconds? Because I've not changed that parameters, but the package set it. If you suggest to use 600, I'll do. Regardsm -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
