RE: Bug#45954: Anacron still hangs

1999-09-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Thanks for the clarification Dan.

Re: Anacron still hangs

1999-09-29 Thread John Whitley
Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > The most correct fix is to make opt an int. Indeed. My patch makes this necessary correction, but I admittedly hadn't delved into the headers once I got to the getopt() man page. The man page states nothing about EOF, just that -1 was the terminating return value. I

Re: Anacron still hangs

1999-09-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
John Whitley wrote: > > >[strace log elided...] > > The strace is not terribly useful. I have already reported this > problem, including a working patch, and been ack'ed by the maintainer. > The fix was supposed to appear in 2.1-2, but hasn't shown up at all. > If you are still having this probl

Re: Anacron still hangs

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:49:29AM -0400, John Whitley wrote: > > >[strace log elided...] > > The strace is not terribly useful. I have already reported this > problem, including a working patch, and been ack'ed by the maintainer. > The fix was supposed to appear in 2.1-2, but hasn't shown up at

Re: Anacron still hangs

1999-09-29 Thread John Whitley
>[strace log elided...] The strace is not terribly useful. I have already reported this problem, including a working patch, and been ack'ed by the maintainer. The fix was supposed to appear in 2.1-2, but hasn't shown up at all. If you are still having this problem, submit it to the BTS, to get t

Re: Anacron still hangs

1999-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:16:00AM +0200, Frank Petzold wrote: > After my upgrade yesterday, I was hoping that the new Anacron package would > not hang anymore, but it does on my machine. Ditto. I finally wound up uninstalling it. The following might prove useful: # strace anacron -s execve("/

Re: Anacron still hangs

1999-09-28 Thread Frank Petzold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It's 2.1-3 that has the fix, not 2.1-2. If the binary isn't there yet, build > it yourself. It works fine here now :) Hmm, the binary 2.1-3 is dates Sep 22. So I use 2.1-3. And it still hangs. I will try building it myself. -- Frank Petzold, IBM Zurich Research Labora

Re: Anacron still hangs

1999-09-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
Frank Petzold wrote: > > After my upgrade yesterday, I was hoping that the new Anacron package would > not hang anymore, but it does on my machine. It's 2.1-3 that has the fix, not 2.1-2. If the binary isn't there yet, build it yourself. It works fine here now :) Michel, not thinking about "Hav

Anacron still hangs

1999-09-28 Thread Frank Petzold
After my upgrade yesterday, I was hoping that the new Anacron package would not hang anymore, but it does on my machine. -- Frank Petzold, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon/Switzerland, Tel. +41-1-724-84-42 Fax. +41-1-724-89-56 Business email: [EMAIL PROTEC