Hi again, Just want to know, how would we know when the issue has been resolved so we can upgrade maildrop? Regards
You can post a error report at ubuntu launchpad, then a message should be sent to your account when the bug gets closed.
anyone know how I can make my server not update everynight to the broken version of maildrop...I have to apply the downgrade every morning now....????
Put the package on hold: Code: echo "maildrop hold"|dpkg --set-selections To "unhold" the package: Code: echo "maildrop install"|dpkg --set-selections
Thanks, tried this and still did not work. This is just crazy, I cannot see why it is updating every bloody night..
root@wci:~# cd /etc/cron.daily root@wci:/etc/cron.daily# ls -la total 88 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-12-09 06:40 . drwxr-xr-x 110 root root 4096 2010-02-06 06:31 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 199 2009-04-16 19:22 amavisd-new -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 633 2009-08-18 07:30 apache2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8686 2009-04-16 21:27 apt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 314 2009-02-10 05:45 aptitude -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 502 2008-11-04 13:43 bsdmainutils -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 89 2009-01-26 10:55 logrotate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 954 2009-03-19 03:17 man-db -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 646 2008-11-04 13:37 mlocate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1154 2009-05-13 14:06 ntp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102 2008-11-12 07:47 .placeholder -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2149 2008-11-17 01:52 popularity-contest -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 345 2008-11-05 14:42 quota -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 651 2008-10-01 04:41 rkhunter -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1142 2009-02-25 22:23 spamassassin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 330 2009-07-07 10:33 squirrelmail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3349 2008-11-12 07:47 standard -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1309 2009-01-23 10:33 sysklogd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1450 2008-11-12 05:30 webalizer
There surely is a problem ... just how to configure apt(itude) not to update maildrop Seems like it's un-holding it, and upgradeing it every day /etc/cron.daily/aptitude is the guilty one Just removed it until new maildrop pacakge comes out ... Still can do manual update ...
apt Code: #!/bin/sh # #set -e # # This file understands the following apt configuration variables: # # "APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists=1" # - Do "apt-get update" automatically every n-days (0=disable) # # "APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages=0", # - Do "apt-get upgrade --download-only" every n-days (0=disable) # # "APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval" # - Do "apt-get autoclean" every n-days (0=disable) # # "APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade" # - Run the "unattended-upgrade" security upgrade script # every n-days (0=disabled) # Requires the package "unattended-upgrades" and will write # a log in /var/log/unattended-upgrades # # "APT::Archives::MaxAge", # - Set maximum allowed age of a cache package file. If a cache # package file is older it is deleted (0=disable) # # "APT::Archives::MaxSize", # - Set maximum size of the cache in MB (0=disable). If the cache # is bigger, cached package files are deleted until the size # requirement is met (the biggest packages will be deleted # first). # # "APT::Archives::MinAge" # - Set minimum age of a package file. If a file is younger it # will not be deleted (0=disable). Usefull to prevent races # and to keep backups of the packages for emergency. # check_stamp() { stamp="$1" interval="$2" if [ $interval -eq 0 ]; then return 1 fi if [ ! -f $stamp ]; then return 0 fi # compare midnight today to midnight the day the stamp was updated stamp_file="$stamp" stamp=$(date --date=$(date -r $stamp_file --iso-8601) +%s 2>/dev/null) if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then # Due to some timezones returning 'invalid date' for midnight on # certain dates (eg America/Sao_Paulo), if date returns with error # remove the stamp file and return 0. See coreutils bug: # http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-09/msg00176.html rm -f "$stamp_file" return 0 fi now=$(date --date=$(date --iso-8601) +%s 2>/dev/null) if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then # As above, due to some timezones returning 'invalid date' for midnight # on certain dates (eg America/Sao_Paulo), if date returns with error # return 0. return 0 fi delta=$(($now-$stamp)) # intervall is in days, interval=$(($interval*60*60*24)) #echo "stampfile: $1" #echo "interval=$interval, now=$now, stamp=$stamp, delta=$delta" if [ $delta -ge $interval ]; then return 0 fi return 1 } update_stamp() { stamp="$1" touch $stamp } # we check here if autoclean was enough sizewise check_size_constraints() { # min-age in days MaxAge=0 MinAge=2 MaxSize=0 CacheDir="var/cache/apt" CacheArchive="archives/" eval $(apt-config shell MaxAge APT::Archives::MaxAge) eval $(apt-config shell MinAge APT::Archives::MinAge) eval $(apt-config shell MaxSize APT::Archives::MaxSize) eval $(apt-config shell Dir Dir) eval $(apt-config shell CacheDir Dir::Cache) eval $(apt-config shell CacheArchive Dir::Cache::archives) # sanity check if [ -z "$CacheDir" -o -z "$CacheArchive" ]; then echo "empty Dir::Cache or Dir::Cache::archives, exiting" exit fi Cache="${Dir%/}/${CacheDir%/}/${CacheArchive%/}/" # check age if [ ! $MaxAge -eq 0 ] && [ ! $MinAge -eq 0 ]; then find $Cache -name "*.deb" \( -mtime +$MaxAge -and -ctime +$MaxAge \) -and -not \( -mtime -$MinAge -or -ctime -$MinAge \) -print0 | xargs -r -0 rm -f elif [ ! $MaxAge -eq 0 ]; then find $Cache -name "*.deb" -ctime +$MaxAge -and -mtime +$MaxAge -print0 | xargs -r -0 rm -f fi # check size if [ ! $MaxSize -eq 0 ]; then # maxSize is in MB MaxSize=$(($MaxSize*1024)) #get current time now=$(date --date=$(date --iso-8601) +%s) MinAge=$(($MinAge*24*60*60)) # reverse-sort by mtime for file in $(ls -rt $Cache/*.deb 2>/dev/null); do du=$(du -s $Cache) size=${du%%/*} # check if the cache is small enough if [ $size -lt $MaxSize ]; then break fi # check for MinAge of the file if [ ! $MinAge -eq 0 ]; then # check both ctime and mtime mtime=$(stat -c %Y $file) ctime=$(stat -c %Z $file) if [ $mtime -gt $ctime ]; then delta=$(($now-$mtime)) else delta=$(($now-$ctime)) fi #echo "$file ($delta), $MinAge" if [ $delta -le $MinAge ]; then #echo "Skiping $file (delta=$delta)" break fi fi # delete oldest file rm -f $file done fi } # sleep for a random interval of time (default 30min) # (some code taken from cron-apt, thanks) random_sleep() { RandomSleep=1800 eval $(apt-config shell RandomSleep APT::Periodic::RandomSleep) if [ $RandomSleep -eq 0 ]; then return fi if [ -z "$RANDOM" ] ; then # A fix for shells that do not have this bash feature. RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -c"1-5") fi TIME=$(($RANDOM % $RandomSleep)) sleep $TIME } # main if ! which apt-config >/dev/null; then exit 0 fi UpdateInterval=0 DownloadUpgradeableInterval=0 eval $(apt-config shell UpdateInterval APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists DownloadUpgradeableInterval APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages) AutocleanInterval=$DownloadUpgradeableInterval eval $(apt-config shell AutocleanInterval APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval) UnattendedUpgradeInterval=0 eval $(apt-config shell UnattendedUpgradeInterval APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade) # check if we actually have to do anything if [ $UpdateInterval -eq 0 ] && [ $DownloadUpgradeableInterval -eq 0 ] && [ $UnattendedUpgradeInterval -eq 0 ] && [ $AutocleanInterval -eq 0 ]; then exit 0 fi # laptop check, on_ac_power returns: # 0 (true) System is on mains power # 1 (false) System is not on mains power # 255 (false) Power status could not be determined # Desktop systems always return 255 it seems if which on_ac_power >/dev/null; then on_ac_power if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then exit 0 fi fi # sleep random amount of time to avoid hitting the # mirrors at the same time random_sleep # check if we can access the cache if ! apt-get check -q -q 2>/dev/null; then # wait random amount of time before retrying random_sleep # check again if ! apt-get check -q -q 2>/dev/null; then echo "$0: could not lock the APT cache while performing daily cron job. " echo "Is another package manager working?" exit 1 fi fi # set the proxy based on the admin users gconf settings admin_user=$(getent group admin|cut -d: -f4|cut -d, -f1) if [ -n "$admin_user" ] && [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ] && [ -z "$http_proxy" ] && [ -x /usr/bin/gconftool ]; then use=$(sudo -u "$admin_user" gconftool --get /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy 2>/dev/null) host=$(sudo -u "$admin_user" gconftool --get /system/http_proxy/host 2>/dev/null) port=$(sudo -u "$admin_user" gconftool --get /system/http_proxy/port 2>/dev/null) if [ "$use" = "true" ] && [ -n "$host" ] && [ -n "$port" ]; then export http_proxy="http://$host:$port/" fi fi UPDATE_STAMP=/var/lib/apt/periodic/update-stamp if check_stamp $UPDATE_STAMP $UpdateInterval; then # check for a new archive signing key (against the master keyring) apt-key net-update # now run the update if apt-get -qq update -o APT::Update::Auth-Failure::="cp /usr/share/apt/apt-auth-failure.note /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/" 2>/dev/null; then # Could possible test access to '/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket' has well, # but I'm not sure how stable the internal pipe location is defined as # being; so for the moment just 2>/dev/null . --sladen 2007-09-27 if which dbus-send >/dev/null; then dbus-send --system / app.apt.dbus.updated boolean:true 2>/dev/null || true fi # now run apt-xapian-index if it is installed to ensure the index # is up-to-date if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index ]; then ionice -c3 update-apt-xapian-index -q fi update_stamp $UPDATE_STAMP fi fi DOWNLOAD_UPGRADEABLE_STAMP=/var/lib/apt/periodic/download-upgradeable-stamp if check_stamp $DOWNLOAD_UPGRADEABLE_STAMP $DownloadUpgradeableInterval; then apt-get -qq -d dist-upgrade 2>/dev/null update_stamp $DOWNLOAD_UPGRADEABLE_STAMP fi UPGRADE_STAMP=/var/lib/apt/periodic/upgrade-stamp if check_stamp $UPGRADE_STAMP $UnattendedUpgradeInterval; then unattended-upgrade update_stamp $UPGRADE_STAMP fi AUTOCLEAN_STAMP=/var/lib/apt/periodic/autoclean-stamp if check_stamp $AUTOCLEAN_STAMP $AutocleanInterval; then apt-get -qq autoclean update_stamp $AUTOCLEAN_STAMP fi # check cache size check_size_constraints aptitude Code: #!/bin/sh bak=/var/backups # Shamelessly ripped from /etc/cron.daily/standard if test -f /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates && cd $bak ; then if ! cmp -s aptitude.pkgstates.0 /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates ; then cp -p /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates aptitude.pkgstates savelog -c 7 aptitude.pkgstates > /dev/null fi fi
Hi, I moved /etc/cron.daily/aptitude to another folder and maildrop is still getting updating every day. Is there a service that needs to be restarted after removing the /etc/cron.daily/aptitude ? thx -- Dan
This is becoming a pain in the ass. If I forget to run the downgrade everyday, my client calls bitching....man there has got to be a way to stop this. Anyone know how I could put a script to run every morning that would run the downgrade?
I have this same problem on Ubuntu 9.04. I hid the maildrop package upgrade for now, but it would be nice if it worked. Also, I hope this won't prevent me from upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 at some point.
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04. echo "maildrop hold"|dpkg --set-selections works great. What are you ppl running? Strange that it works for me.
Yes, it does, but I will have to upgrade either maildrop or to Ubuntu 9.10 at some point, and I'd like to know that that's possible eventually.
