Bug 8868

Summary:	Cron locking up.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	D Donovan <ddonovan>
Component:	vixie-cron	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1
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Description D Donovan 2000-01-25 19:21:35 UTC

Cron cannot make it through 24 hours without locking up.  When it locks up
ps -x shows it to still be running, but it ceases executing it's assigned
processes.  to function again crond must killed and restarted.  It does not
make any difference what commands, which order, or which user, are
involved.  I have not been able to make it lock up on purpose.  It does not
matter if a user is logged in or not.  it will eventually happen either
way.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-01-25 19:32:59 UTC

If you strace the locked up cron process, is it
doing anything?

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-03-20 16:22:59 UTC

closed, lack of input.

Comment 3 lionel.cons 2000-06-29 10:15:58 UTC

We too suffer from this problem (but on i386). Here is what strace gives us:

# strace -f -p 403
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {0x8049890, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({21474836, 0}, 

So it seems that cron is sleeping for 250 days...

Can this bug be reopened?

Comment 4 Stephen John Smoogen 2003-01-25 03:27:05 UTC

Bug was for Red Hat Linux on Sparc architecture. This Hardware is no longer
supported by Red Hat and the 6.1 release is considered to be end of lifed.
Please look at http://auroralinux.org/ as this project has continued work on
this hardware.