Bug 241499

Please could you put here the list of services which you have on your cron
weekly list. And could you copy/attach here the whole mail generated by cron.
Thanks.

That is the whole mail except for the to and from

From: 	Anacron <root>
To: 	root
Subject: 	Anacron job for 'Ruthie-07' cron.weekly
Date: 	Fri, 25 May 2007 11:10:33 -0700


sh: line 1:  8158 Segmentation fault      zcat
"/usr/share/man/man3/mkfifoat.3.gz" 2> /dev/null



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The services are the default of F7-rc2 i386

Created attachment 155579 [details]
debug version of makewhatis command

This seems for me to be makewhatis problem.
Could you please change /usr/sbin/makewhatis file with the attached file (it
has more verbose output), and attach the next anacron email here.

ok, file in place.

Created attachment 155761 [details]
output of makewhatis 

Attached dailt cron e-mail that used the /usr/sbin/mkwhatis file you supplied.

Do you still need the weekly (it will run on Friday.)

Darwin

This output is too simple "makewhatis -u" have not found any new man-page so
there  is no segfault. 
The weekly makewhatis output does not use -u option se there should happen the
segfault. So weekly output is necessary.
Thanks for your help.

Something happened to the mail or logwatch?

All I am getting now is

Unable to retrieve message
Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync.

I didn't touch it. :)

Darwin

OK after installing the f8-3200 kernel to stabilize the system,
the evolution e-mail for the daily-cron using the file you sent to me
generated 1,363,175 LINES.

It crashed evolution, gedit, and the kernel

After the new f8-3200 kernel rebooted 
I used the display as unformated text in the 
"Evolution cannot render this email as it is too large to handle. You can view
it unformatted or with an external text editor." message and it took about 7
minutes to finish displaying then another 7 to copy into gedit.

It is just shy of 50MB. 
So what now because I have several more dailys and weekly may be bigger?

Darwin

This is from the logwatch about the cron

--------------------- sendmail-largeboxes (large mail spool files) Begin
------------------------ 

 Large Mailbox threshold: 40MB (41943040 bytes)
  Warning: Large mailbox: darwinhwebb (100856267)
 
 ---------------------- sendmail-largeboxes (large mail spool files) End

We need different approach to fix the original bug..

Darwin

Hello, 
could you please attach here the part of cron mail which consists of the message
"Segmentation fault      zcat"?
If it is not possible (you remove these mail), then if you can redirect the
output of makewhatis command to some auxiliary temporary file
(/tmp/your_favourite_name). Then there will be no limit for the size of this
file and you can grep it and attach here the part of this file containing error
message  "Segmentation fault      zcat"
You can redirect the makewhatis command output if you change
/etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron script.
You have to change command
 makewhatis -w
to
 makewhatis -w 2> /tmp/your_favourite_name

ok, I chaged the daily and the weekly to sppol to /tmp/somefilename.txt

The weekly has never run again yet.
They have all been daily so far.

Does this take into account SELinux?

Darwin

Is there any change? What is the status of this bug - do you have any output
from cron weekly log?
Thanks