Cron error

[koby]

Hello guys ,
I keep getting this error which I can not understand why ?
I am using Ver 6.3-5

Here is the error :
"
/etc/cron.daily/dpkg:
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.status.5.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.status.4.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.status.3.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.status.2.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.status.1.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'dpkg.status': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.diversions.5.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.diversions.4.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.diversions.3.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.diversions.2.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.diversions.1.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'dpkg.diversions': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.statoverride.5.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.statoverride.4.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.statoverride.3.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.statoverride.2.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './/dpkg.statoverride.1.gz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'dpkg.statoverride': No such file or directory
"
Can someone please advice ,
Best Regards,
Koby Peleg Hen.

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

I keep getting this error which I can not understand why ?

where do you get the error-messages?

/etc/cron.daily/dpkg:

could you please post the contents of /etc/cron.daily/dpkg on your system?

 

[koby]

where do you get the error-messages?

could you please post the contents of /etc/cron.daily/dpkg on your system?

Hi ,
As for the first question ,==> I do get this to my mail.

For the second question ,

here is /etc/cron.daily/dpkg on your system...
"
#!/bin/sh

dbdir=/var/lib/dpkg

# Backup the 7 last versions of dpkg databases containing user data.
if cd /var/backups ; then
# We backup all relevant database files if any has changed, so that
# the rotation number always contains an internally consistent set.
dbchanged=no
dbfiles="arch status diversions statoverride"
for db in $dbfiles ; do
if ! cmp -s "dpkg.${db}.0" "$dbdir/$db"; then
dbchanged=yes
break;
fi
done
if [ "$dbchanged" = "yes" ] ; then
for db in $dbfiles ; do
[ -e "$dbdir/$db" ] || continue
cp -p "$dbdir/$db" "dpkg.$db"
savelog -c 7 "dpkg.$db" >/dev/null
done
fi

# The alternatives database is independent from the dpkg database.
dbalt=alternatives

# XXX: Ideally we'd use --warning=none instead of discarding stderr, but
# as of GNU tar 1.27.1, it does not seem to work reliably (see #749307).
if ! test -e ${dbalt}.tar.0 ||
! tar -df ${dbalt}.tar.0 -C $dbdir $dbalt >/dev/null 2>&1 ;
then
tar -cf ${dbalt}.tar -C $dbdir $dbalt >/dev/null 2>&1
savelog -c 7 ${dbalt}.tar >/dev/null
fi
fi
"

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

hmm - seems odd - the cron-script seems unchanged (if possible please use code-tags the next time - or even attach it for easier comparison)

any particular changes to mountpoints etc on your system?

what's the output of (in code tags):

ls -la /var/
ls -la /var/backups/
ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/
sh -x /etc/cron.daily/dpkg

the last one should run the cron-script with set -x - which should give an indication where the problem occurs

 

[Jacob75]

Hi, I have got the same problem and output of the script sh -x /etc/cron.daily/dpkg is:

+ dbdir=/var/lib/dpkg
+ cd /var/backups
+ dbchanged=no
+ dbfiles=arch status diversions statoverride
+ cmp -s dpkg.arch.0 /var/lib/dpkg/arch
+ dbchanged=yes
+ break
+ [ yes = yes ]
+ [ -e /var/lib/dpkg/arch ]
+ continue
+ [ -e /var/lib/dpkg/status ]
+ cp -p /var/lib/dpkg/status dpkg.status
cp: cannot create regular file 'dpkg.status': Permission denied
+ savelog -c 7 dpkg.status
touch: cannot touch 'dpkg.status': Permission denied
savelog: could not touch dpkg.status
+ [ -e /var/lib/dpkg/diversions ]
+ cp -p /var/lib/dpkg/diversions dpkg.diversions
cp: cannot create regular file 'dpkg.diversions': Permission denied
+ savelog -c 7 dpkg.diversions
touch: cannot touch 'dpkg.diversions': Permission denied
savelog: could not touch dpkg.diversions
+ [ -e /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride ]
+ cp -p /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride dpkg.statoverride
cp: cannot create regular file 'dpkg.statoverride': Permission denied
+ savelog -c 7 dpkg.statoverride
touch: cannot touch 'dpkg.statoverride': Permission denied
savelog: could not touch dpkg.statoverride
+ dbalt=alternatives
+ test -e alternatives.tar.0
+ tar -df alternatives.tar.0 -C /var/lib/dpkg alternatives

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Hi, I have got the same problem and output of the script sh -x /etc/cron.daily/dpkg is:

you would need to run the script as root (the permission denied errors indicate that you run it as regular user)