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#407 fixed athena-auto-update should dpkg --configure -a jdreed geofft

Reported by geofft, 15 years ago.

Description

A handful of machines in clusters have stopped updating with

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache

update.log is missing a record of the last upgrade finishing, indicating the system was probably rebooted. I reported this as a theoretical bug five months ago in comment:ticket:217:1 after running into it on my -cluster laptop; as I predicted, it's happening in practice.

#412 duplicate athena-auto-update should not run when the user is logged in jdreed

Reported by jdreed, 15 years ago.

Description

We decided we don't care about machines being unavailable while they're taking an update. We should change athena-auto-update to run when idle. The desync period should be 2 hours during "low usage" times (2am -8 am) and should be 6 hours otherwise, to help protect against every machine in a cluster taking texlive-full simultaneously.

When a machine is being updated, we will touch /etc/nologin and switch to a new VT and display a message to users.

We should ensure updates run even on machines that get little-to-no idle time, such as quickstations.

#784 wontfix athena-auto-update should use start-stop-daemon jdreed

Reported by jdreed, 14 years ago.

Description

It's been noted athena-auto-update should use start-stop-daemon, which avoids the at(1) suckage, avoids frequent cron jobs, and avoids the ConsoleKit? issues with sleeping inside cron jobs.

It was noted on the zephyr that we have no idea how start-stop-daemon will behave when the machine is suspend. Because this is a huge re-architecting of auto-update, extensive testing (above and beyond normal test plans) should be conducted.

The idea of double-forking was also mentioned.

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