Re: atd fails? (potato)

[Frank Copeland <fjc@wossname.apana.org.au>]

Scott Henry wrote:
>I did a recent apt-get upgrade, and now atd fails. It used to work
>fine. It seems to only process items when restarted, and leaves
>defuct children around. I have "at" version 3.1.8-7 installed. I am
>running various 2.3.x kernels with various patches, but atd isn't
>working even if I reboot with an old kernel (2.3.21/devfs/int-patch)
>where it used to work... (SMP, but that shouldn't affect atd?).
>
>Any ideas?

at 3.1.8-7 is broken.

See <http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=49739>.

I was lucky enough to have the .deb for at 3.1.8-6 still in my apt archive,
so I downgraded to that version and it started working again.

Frank