Ubuntu
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/etc/cron.daily/apt randomly delays other jobs

Bug #727685 reported by Hadmut Danisch on 2011-03-02

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apt (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apt

Hi,

(affects 10.04 LTS as well)

anacron executes
run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
daily. run-parts runs the job in /etc/cron.daily one after the other in alphabetical order.

/etc/cron.daily/apt is one of the first to be executed, and contains a random_sleep to avoid all ubuntu machines on the world hitting the server at the same time. This makes sense, but randomly delays all the other tasks in /etc/cron.daily, and causes inconsistencies, e.g. logrotates do not cover exactly 24 hours, but sometimes more, sometimes less.

Would be nice to send this apt job either to the background or run it as the last job (ie. rename to zzapt or something like this).

regards

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: apt 0.8.3ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 2 10:59:29 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: apt

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lp://staging/~tspindler/+junk/apt

lp://staging/~mvo/apt/mvo

Merged into lp://staging/~pitti/apt/compressed-indexes at revision 2036

Ubuntu Core Development Team: Pending requested 2010-10-13

Merged into lp://staging/~ubuntu-core-dev/apt/ubuntu at revision 1810

Ubuntu Core Development Team: Pending requested 2010-10-13

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Hadmut Danisch (hadmut) wrote on 2011-03-02:

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Torsten Spindler (tspindler) wrote on 2011-03-04:

Thank you for reporting this issue. It is indeed a very good thought to move the apt cron job out of the way so the random sleep does not delay other jobs unnecessarily.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Torsten Spindler (tspindler) wrote on 2011-03-05:

I've built a test package in https://launchpad.net/~tspindler/+archive/apt. Can you test it, best on an expendable virtual machine, and report if it fixes the issue for you?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-04-06:

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.2.10

---------------
apt (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=medium

[ Zhou Mo ]
* zh_CN.po: update simplified Chinese translation. (100%)

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * test-apt-download-progress: Use a larger file for testing
  * Allow lowering trust level of a hash via config

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * Use systemd.timer instead of a cron job (Closes: #600262, #709675, #663290)
    (LP: #246381, #727685)

[ David Kalnischkies ]
* use buffered writing for InRelease splitting

[ Takuma Yamada ]
* Japanese program translation update (Closes: 819938)

-- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Apr 2016 20:23:47 +0200

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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