I submited a bug... Bug#114864: Hanging run-parts
As maintainer wrote - such problem was in previous 1.13.3 version, but has been corrected in current version... not well. --- Sergey "BeerBong" Polyakov chief of WebZavod (http://www.webzavod.ru) ----- Original Message ----- From: "B.C.J.O" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Noel Koethe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Christian Kurz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Hanging run-parts weirdness!!! > On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Noel Koethe wrote: > > > On Mon, 08 Okt 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > > > 16310 pts/2 S 0:00 \_ run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily/ > > > > > 16388 pts/2 Z 0:00 \_ [man-db <defunct>] > > > > > > > > > > Every time different script, and if I run every script manually it is > > > > > completed in a moment without problems! > > > > > > I have no idea what the problem is. > > > > Maybe its a good idea to report this bug to the "debianutils" > > > > package where run-parts belong to. > > > > > > No, that's wrong because run-parts is working fine, but mandb is the > > > program which is hanging around in defunctional status. So this bug > > > should be reported against mandb. But please look before into the > > > cronjob in /etc/cron.daily that is calling mandb and try running the > > > exact command manual to see if it works or if that one hangs too. > > > > :) No. The initial mail show many hanging jobs from cron.daily and > > not always man.db. I tried all the cron.daily scripts many times > > by hand and this never happened. > > Sergey wrote now the same problems (http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2001/debian-isp-200110/msg00078.html) > > and I think this could be a run-parts problem. > > seems that cron isn't reaping its children correctly. I noticed this > problem on a machine that I had moved to woody from potato. Kill off cron, > and the zombies go away. There was a cron update a few days ago that seems > to have lessened the problem to a certain extent. It's still a pain, tho. > =) > > Brian > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination > is out of focus." -- Mark Twain > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
