Public bug reported: Sysstat has changed the default compression from bzip2 to xz but the packages is lack of depend of the xz-utils. This causes the daily cronjob to fail with:
/etc/cron.daily/sysstat: xargs: xz: No such file or directory This has been fixed in the Debian package by depending on the correct compression package. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/robert/sysstat.git/commit/?id=a3cb350b63d3fd819d86e1f865589e5b2b73d393 Attaching a patch which will do the same for Ubuntu. # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Release: 16.04 # apt-cache policy sysstat sysstat: Installed: 11.2.0-1 Candidate: 11.2.0-1 Version table: *** 11.2.0-1 500 500 http://linux-sua.it.su.se/xenial/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ** Affects: sysstat (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Patch added: "sysstat-11.2.0-2.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578160/+attachment/4655428/+files/sysstat-11.2.0-2.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578160 Title: /etc/cron.daily/sysstat: xargs: xz: No such file or directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysstat/+bug/1578160/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
