Debian
apt-cacher package

daily cron email with apt-cacher-cleanup.pl flock errors

Bug #174814 reported by Neal McBurnett
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Bug Description

If apt-cacher has been installed but not yet configured or run (AUTOSTART=0 in /etc/defaults/apt-cacher), a daily email is sent to root looking like this:

Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on tj
/etc/cron.daily/apt-cacher:
flock() on closed filehandle $lck at /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl line 121.
flock() on closed filehandle $lck at /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl line 123.

It is trying to lock the non-existent file /var/cache/apt-cacher/private/exlock

There is better error handling code around a similar flock statement in /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-lib.pl
sub set_global_lock

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Neal McBurnett (nealmcb) wrote :

Oh yeah - I'm using gutsy and apt-cacher 1.5.3

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mune (mune) wrote :

I have the same email/error reporting; it is quite annoing.

Have you solved?

Thanks

Fede

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flo-54321 (flo-54321) wrote :

I get the same error on a Debian etch system.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Have you tried apt-cacher-ng?

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mune (mune) wrote :

I still have Ubuntu gutsy, but some updatee (= I don't know which one) removed the preblem.

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Neal McBurnett (nealmcb) wrote :

Based on mune's comment I'm marking this "fix-released".

Changed in apt-cacher (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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mune (mune) wrote : Re: [Bug 174814] Re: daily cron email with apt-cacher-cleanup.pl flock errors

Il giorno dom, 21/03/2010 alle 18.30 +0000, Neal McBurnett ha scritto:
> Based on mune's comment I'm marking this "fix-released".
>
> ** Changed in: apt-cacher (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Fix Released

Yes it's fixed.

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