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

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:14:02AM +0400, alexander barakin (aka sash-kan) wrote:
> 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.

This looks like a problem with your pam setup and the nobody user.
/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest do:
  su -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/sbin/popularity-contest" nobody

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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