Bug 5535

Summary:	crond is not started at startup
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	jean michel masereel <jean-michel.masereel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	dmorganec, mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	cronie-1.4.8-2.mga2.src.rpm or crontabs-1.10-15.mga1.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	3342

Description jean michel masereel 2012-04-21 16:09:20 CEST

Since the update from mga1 to mga2-beta3, my scheduled tasks aren't running.
crond doesn't appears in "ps" command. crond is present in the directory /etc/rc.d/init.d/
If I launch crond manually, it is ok for the scheduled tasks. But after a reboot, crond is not running again, and it's not ok for the scheduled tasks.

>systemctl status crond.service
crond.service - Command Scheduler
          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/crond.service; disabled)
          Active: inactive (dead)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/crond.service

The last entry of :/var/log/cron/info.log is from before the update to beta3.

There is already something about that in the bug : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4145 marked as resolved and concerning alpha3, that's the reason why I re-post a new bug.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-21 23:47:32 CEST

CC: (none) => dmorganec, mageia
Blocks: (none) => 3342

Comment 1 Colin Guthrie 2012-04-22 01:13:17 CEST

I believe this happens because rpm-helper was updated after crond. Can you confirm by checking the installation date/time of the two packages:

rpm -qi cronie
rpm -qi rpm-helper

We've discussed this on the list and we'll need a solution for the final release, but if you could confirm the theory, that would be great.

Comment 2 Colin Guthrie 2012-04-22 01:14:19 CEST

Oh and to enable it, just type "systemctl enable crond.service" and it should be started next boot (but obviously we need to solve the transition problem)

Comment 3 jean michel masereel 2012-04-22 14:54:05 CEST

Hi,
you where right :
Name        : cronie
Version     : 1.4.8
Release     : 2.mga2
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: jeu. 19 avril 2012 12:59:29 CEST

Name        : rpm-helper
Version     : 0.24.8
Release     : 1.mga2
Architecture: noarch
Install Date: jeu. 19 avril 2012 14:56:55 CEST

and "systemctl enable crond.service" made crond starting after reboot.
Just to mention that in mcc/system/manage system services by (dis)enabling the "at startup" box was checked... And now its status is "stopped" (despite that it is running!)

Comment 4 Colin Guthrie 2012-04-22 15:15:55 CEST

Yeah the MMC services stuff still needs to be converted over for systemd support.. it's on my list.

Glad this is a known issue, even if there is not a tracking bug for it yet. I've opened one now bug #5556. Thanks for the report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5556 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE