[Popcon-developers] Bug#709892: popularity-contest: Unable to submit report

[Bill Allombert]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 11:35:27AM +0100, Ernest Adrogué wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> 2014-03- 7, 23:36 (+0100); Bill Allombert escriu:
> 
> > Could you tell me what is your timezone ?
> 
> Central European Time, UTC+1
> 
> > Are you using ntp ? Is it on a server running 24/24 ?
> 
> It's a desktop machine, although it's left on most of the time.
> 
> There is no ntp server running on this computer, but I have however an ntp
> client (ntpdate) and a weekly cron job that runs /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian.

This seems to confirm my hypothesis that too many people are reporting at
the exact same time. I tried to look at the server traffic data, but there
is not enough granularity to detect the issue.

Could you try to run (as root)
sh -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest
(you might need to adjust the DAY number in 
/etc/popularity-contest.conf) to see if it works ?

In that case, you can try to add in /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest
sleep 500
just before
# keep old logs

to see whether the extra delay fix the issue.

Thanks in advance for your help tracking this!

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

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