I've just realised that on my workstation running Wheezy this has also happened on the 10th this month, this time the one that was sharing the pipes with run-parts was the cron that had been restarted, this was the upgrade:
2012-02-10 08:13:11,007 INFO Packages that are upgraded: cron debianutils initscripts less libmail-spf-perl rxvt-unicode spf-tools-perl sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils And this is what the cron's fd looked: lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 0 -> /dev/null l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 1 -> /dev/null l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 2 -> /dev/null lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 3 -> /run/crond.pid lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 44 -> /var/lib/dpkg/status (deleted) lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 46 -> /var/lib/dpkg/status (deleted) lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 76 -> /var/lib/dpkg/status (deleted) lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 78 -> /var/lib/dpkg/status (deleted) lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 80 -> /var/lib/dpkg/status (deleted) lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 83 -> /var/lib/dpkg/status (deleted) lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 85 -> /dev/null lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 86 -> /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2012-02-10_08:13:11.007815.log l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 87 -> pipe:[1910384] l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 88 -> pipe:[1910385] lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 89 -> pipe:[1911272] l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 16 20:14 91 -> /var/log/apt/history.log Pipes shared with run-parts were 1910384 and 1910385, it is weird that this cron has all this dpkg and upgrades files opened, without knowing anything about apt or dpkg internals it looks to me that we are not cleaning something when apt or dpkg does the upgrade and services are restarted or similar, what do you think? Ideas? Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
