Anacron resource deadlock problem in FC5

cdhgee · 06-21-2006, 02:14 PM

I've noticed that ever since I upgraded from FC4 to FC5, I get the following in my cron.daily log:

Code:

/etc/cron.daily/0anacron:

anacron: Cannot run - another anacron process is already running.: Resource deadlock avoided

I've googled a bit and it seems other people have this problem too but there's no definite consensus on either the cause or the proper solution. Both crond and anacron are set to on in chkconfig, and there is a '0anacron' in /etc/cron.daily/ (as well as cron.weekly and cron.monthly).

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance.

Regards
David

hob · 06-23-2006, 09:28 AM

I had this issue, and resolved it by putting this in the /etc/cron.daily/0anacron script:

if [ ! -e /var/run/anacron.pid ]
then
anacron -u cron.daily
fi

and similar for the scripts in cron.weekly, and cron.monthly.

I can't remember exactly where I found this solution...

ahz10 · 07-31-2006, 10:32 AM

I'm having the same problem on FC5. I found a suggestion to run

Quote:

As root: chkconfig --del anacron.

However, on my system:

Code:

# chkconfig --list anacron
anacron         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
#  /etc/init.d/anacron  status
anacron is stopped