Paul Furness wrote:
This may or nay not have a bearing here: I left cron and anacron stoppedI don't think its to do with anacron because people have mentioned leaving SMP systems running overnight to find they had locked up sometime during the night which would indicate the cron had run..
overnight, and for the first time since the install (about 10 days ago)
the system worked overnight. I'll leave it going for another 24 hours
and if it _still_ works I'll add a comment to bugzilla.
If it is something triggered by cron, it'll take a while to track down
exactly what - I can run each of the cron.daily scripts from the command
prompt without a problem.
Hmm. I wonder if it's something to do with an anacron-triggered job
running after the disks have spun down due to inactivity?
That's something that doesn't happen on server builds, I think.
P.
An easy way to test would be to ( in 24 hours time when you test is finished ) start cron and leave anacron stopped and see if the system is still running the following morning.. Then do the opposite the next day..
Don't you hate how time consuming tracking a fault cane be.. :)
I honestly don't think its cron (or anacron) itself, I think it is something that is being run by cron or anacron that screws up a system with X or Gnome or some other app installed..
Later..
