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[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.] ** Tags added: patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cron in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696098 Title: cron @reboot rules fail for users wuth autofs homes, due to missing upstart dependancy Status in cron package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: cron If a user has a @reboot cron entry like: === @reboot date >> date.log === And their home directory is mounted by autofs into /home then, the job will fail during a machine reboot because the cron service starts before autofs service. I think this is a missing dependency between in the cron upstart configuration, to fix this I think that cron should be started after autofs (only when autofs is enabled). ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Dec 31 12:32:49 2010 Dependencies: adduser 3.112ubuntu1 base-files 5.0.0ubuntu23 base-passwd 3.5.22 coreutils 8.5-1ubuntu3 debconf 1.5.32ubuntu3 debconf-i18n 1.5.32ubuntu3 debianutils 3.2.3 dpkg 1.15.8.4ubuntu3 findutils 4.4.2-1ubuntu1 gcc-4.5-base 4.5.1-7ubuntu2 libacl1 2.2.49-3 libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4ubuntu1 libc-bin 2.12.1-0ubuntu10 libc6 2.12.1-0ubuntu10 libdb4.8 4.8.30-1 libgcc1 1:4.5.1-7ubuntu2 liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6 liblzma2 4.999.9beta+20100527-1 libncurses5 5.7+20100626-0ubuntu1 libpam-modules 1.1.1-4ubuntu2 libpam-runtime 1.1.1-4ubuntu2 libpam0g 1.1.1-4ubuntu2 libselinux1 2.0.94-1 libtext-charwidth-perl 0.04-6 libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-2 libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-7 lsb-base 4.0-0ubuntu8 ncurses-bin 5.7+20100626-0ubuntu1 passwd 1:4.1.4.2-1ubuntu3 perl-base 5.10.1-12ubuntu2 sed 4.2.1-7 sensible-utils 0.0.4ubuntu1 tzdata 2010o-0ubuntu0.10.10 xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20100527-1 zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu1 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: cron 3.0pl1-114ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8 SourcePackage: cron Tags: maverick Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64 /etc/init/cron.conf === # cron - regular background program processing daemon # # cron is a standard UNIX program that runs user-specified programs at # periodic scheduled times description "regular background program processing daemon" start on runlevel [2345] stop on runlevel [!2345] expect fork respawn exec cron === ps aux | grep -E '(automount|cron)' root 1542 0.0 0.0 21128 628 ? Ss Dec23 0:01 cron root 1867 0.0 0.0 123208 1044 ? Ssl Dec23 0:02 /usr/sbin/automount cron has a lower pid so it started first... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/696098/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

