On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 02:31:54PM +0100, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote: > > I realized no other one than me could have realisticaly triggered this > > bug in reality... > > I started getting it on a real system in production a couple days ago, > and it’s only thanks to this bug report that I finally understand what > is going on. > > Said system is a real Debian Bookworm + backports + fasttrack, running > in LXC. > > > You might want to close this one bug > > Please don’t, especially if a fix could be done without a massive > amount of work. > > > Such feature one gets for free using systemd timers... > > Please consider that not everyone runs systemd as their init system. > While in practice many maintainers only care about systemd, reliable > cron jobs help a lot when they can be maintained without too much > effort.
Hello Antoine, If I understand correctly, the issue is that savelog(8) is not reentrant. So maybe the best fix would be to change savelog (in debianutils.) to be reentrant. The alternative is to prevent popcon to run twice at the same time, which can be done with systemd. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
