[Popcon-developers] Bug#623550: popularity-contest: pam_mount and pmvarrun errors

[alexander barakin (aka sash-kan)]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.49
Severity: normal

after upgrading from lenny to squeeze every week i get a message from
the cron:
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> pam_mount(spawn.c:102): error setting uid to 0
> pmvarrun(pmvarrun.c:453): could not unlink /var/run/pam_mount/nobody:
> Permission denied

as far as i understand popularity-contest does not work.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.36.1   Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.15.8.10  Debian package management system

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon
ii  exim4                         4.72-6     metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.72-6     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
pn  anacron                       <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true