Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.41 Severity: normal I've been getting errors for a long time during weekly popcon runs on one of my boxes.
>From /var/log/messages: Aug 26 06:47:48 elrond popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi. Aug 19 06:47:50 elrond popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi. Aug 12 06:47:47 elrond popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi. Aug 5 06:48:10 elrond popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi. The fallback to mail works correctly, but it should not need to fall back to that. I have no idea why it fails, especially since it works correctly when I run the same script manually as root. Could it be that the server is just getting DoSed because too many reports are being submitted at the same time (as they are all cronned at the same time, at least in my TZ)? Or is there something subtle that fails because it is being run from cron? Output from a cron run with set -x in the cron script and a -d added in the call to popcon-upload is shown below. + '[' '!' -f /usr/sbin/popularity-contest ']' + unset MAILFROM + unset MAILTO + unset MY_HOSTID + unset PARTICIPATE + unset SUBMITURLS + unset USEHTTP + . /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf ++ PARTICIPATE=no ++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ SUBMITURLS=http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi ++ USEHTTP=yes + . /etc/popularity-contest.conf ++ MY_HOSTID=3eb1575275db421caca3e0859d9727eb ++ PARTICIPATE=yes ++ USEHTTP=yes + '[' -z [EMAIL PROTECTED] ']' + '[' yes = no ']' + '[' -z yes ']' + cd /var/log + umask 022 + savelog -c 7 popularity-contest + POPCON=/var/log/popularity-contest + run_popcon + su -c 'sh -c /usr/sbin/popularity-contest' nobody + SUBMITTED=no + '[' http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi ']' + '[' yes = yes ']' + for URL in '$SUBMITURLS' + RET=0 + setsid /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -d -u http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-contest timeout in popcon-upload + RET=4 + '[' 4 = 0 ']' + logger -t popularity-contest 'unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi (4).' + '[' yes '!=' no ']' + '[' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ']' ++ which sendmail + '[' -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ']' + '[' -n '' ']' + echo 'To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' + echo 'Subject: popularity-contest submission' + echo 'MIME-Version: 1.0' + echo 'Content-Type: text/plain' + echo + cat /var/log/popularity-contest + do_sendmail + '[' -n '' ']' + sendmail -oi [EMAIL PROTECTED] + SUBMITTED=yes + '[' yes '!=' yes ']' Same output when run manually from a shell (as root). # /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest + '[' '!' -f /usr/sbin/popularity-contest ']' + unset MAILFROM + unset MAILTO + unset MY_HOSTID + unset PARTICIPATE + unset SUBMITURLS + unset USEHTTP + . /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf ++ PARTICIPATE=no ++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ SUBMITURLS=http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi ++ USEHTTP=yes + . /etc/popularity-contest.conf ++ MY_HOSTID=3eb1575275db421caca3e0859d9727eb ++ PARTICIPATE=yes ++ USEHTTP=yes + '[' -z [EMAIL PROTECTED] ']' + '[' yes = no ']' + '[' -z yes ']' + cd /var/log + umask 022 + savelog -c 7 popularity-contest + POPCON=/var/log/popularity-contest + run_popcon + su -c 'sh -c /usr/sbin/popularity-contest' nobody + SUBMITTED=no + '[' http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi ']' + '[' yes = yes ']' + for URL in '$SUBMITURLS' + RET=0 + setsid /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -d -u http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-contest + '[' 0 = 0 ']' + SUBMITTED=yes + '[' yes '!=' yes ']' + '[' yes '!=' yes ']' -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends: ii cron 3.0pl1-100 management of regular background p ii exim4 4.63-17 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.63-17 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon pn mime-construct <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: popularity-contest/submiturls: popularity-contest/hostid-failed: * popularity-contest/participate: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
