[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#741597: systemd: anacron stopped immediately if acpi-support is installed

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.03.2014 12:08, schrieb Andreas B. Mundt:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 204-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I observed the following strange issue on my desktop machine:
> 
> At the beginning of february, suddenly anacron failed to run
> at all.  No suspicious packages where upgraded at that time.
> When having a look at 'journalctl -b | grep anacron', I saw that
> anacron was started, but before being able to run it's jobs, it
> stopped or was stopped again, like shown here (note the time stamp):
> 
> Mar 14 11:17:35 flashgordon systemd[1]: Starting Run anacron jobs...
> Mar 14 11:17:35 flashgordon systemd[1]: Started Run anacron jobs.
> Mar 14 11:17:35 flashgordon anacron[1413]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2014-03-14
> Mar 14 11:17:35 flashgordon anacron[1413]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min.
> Mar 14 11:17:35 flashgordon anacron[1413]: Jobs will be executed sequentially
> Mar 14 11:17:36 flashgordon systemd[1]: Stopping Run anacron jobs...
> Mar 14 11:17:36 flashgordon systemd[1]: Stopped Run anacron jobs

Do you have pm-utils installed? In that case, have a look at
/etc/acpi/power.sh, this calls pm-powersave which in turn can cause
anacron to be stopped.

You could test commenting out the line "pm-powersave $*" to see if that
makes a difference.

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