Ubuntu
debianutils package

logrotate runned by run-part becomes zombie

Bug #66503 reported by Igor Goldenberg
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: debianutils

Every day jobs started by anacron work only some (two or three) days after reboot and no more. Then daily anacron process stays working because 'run-part --report /etc/cron.daily' doesn't exit. I see it starts logrotate but after some days run-parts stops wait() it's child exit and I'll have zombie logrotate and still "running" anacron daily.

Some outputs:

% pstree -p
init(1)──anacron(9929)───run-parts(10167)───logrotate(10242)

% ps axwu|egrep '(anacron|run-parts|logrotate)'
root 9929 0.0 0.1 1760 648 ? Ss Oct15 0:00 /usr/sbin/anacron -s
root 10167 0.0 0.0 1552 380 ? SN Oct15 0:00 run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
root 10242 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? ZNs Oct15 0:00 [logrotate] <defunct>

Revision history for this message
Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in debianutils:
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Igor Goldenberg (igold) wrote :

No, thank you, I haven't this issue more. I found reason for this - it was lastfmsubmitd daily logrotate script. After disabling (renaming) this script this bug is gone.

Andreas Moog (ampelbein)
Changed in debianutils:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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