#851875 atopacctd does not start gracefully if process accounting is stopped

Package:
atop
Source:
atop
Description:
Monitor for system resources and process activity
Submitter:
Jan Niehusmann
Date:
2022-07-13 15:03:07 UTC
Severity:
minor
Tags:
#851875#5
Date:
2017-01-19 13:33:04 UTC
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Package: atop
Version: 2.2.6-2
Severity: minor

The process accounting didn't run because I actively stopped it.
(echo "99 99 30" >/proc/sys/kernel/acct means that process accounting
stops whenever less then 99% of the target fs are free.)

So that's not surprising. But I think that atop still should be
upgradable cleanly, in such a situation.

The chain of events is:

- I paused process accounting using the mentioned command
- I started the upgrade
- postinst tries to start atopacct
  (invoke-rc.d atopacct start, generated by dh_installinit
- atopacct waits for new accounting entries to appear, fails
  after some timeout
- invoke-rc.d returns failure, breaking the update

So it really looks like a different bug. -> new ticket opened.

Set the severity to minor, as it's probably difficult to trigger under
normal circumstances.

Jan
#851875#10
Date:
2017-01-19 15:35:11 UTC
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tags #851875 upstream
forwarded #851875 atoptool.nl
retitle #851875 atopacctd does not start gracefully if process accounting is stopped
thanks
#851875#23
Date:
2021-01-26 07:25:24 UTC
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Hi,

can you verify that this issue still applies to the current version of
atop, 2.6.0? I would appreciate that.

Greetings
Marc
#851875#26
Date:
2021-01-26 07:25:24 UTC
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Hi,

can you verify that this issue still applies to the current version of
atop, 2.6.0? I would appreciate that.

Greetings
Marc
#851875#33
Date:
2022-07-13 10:25:39 UTC
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No answer in 18 months. I intend to close this by the End of August
2022.

Greetings
Marc
#851875#36
Date:
2022-07-13 10:25:39 UTC
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No answer in 18 months. I intend to close this by the End of August
2022.

Greetings
Marc
#851875#41
Date:
2022-07-13 10:37:54 UTC
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Sorry - got the message 18 months ago, put it on my TODO list, and well
what should I say, the TODO lists seems to be LIFO not FIFO.... :-)

However, I just tried to reproduce the issue. At least "apt reinstall
atop" works even if the process accounting is disabled. So I guess the
bug has been fixed in the mean time.

Jan
#851875#46
Date:
2022-07-13 15:01:36 UTC
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Version: 2.7.1-1

Closing the bug then. Thanks for reporting back.

Greetings
Marc