[Popcon-developers] Bug#668784: "su: Authentication failure\n(Ignored)" error message when from cron job

[Raf Czlonka]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.53
Severity: normal

Hi,

When popularity-contest cron job runs I get an error message:

su: Authentication failure
(Ignored)

adding "set -x" to the script reveals that the line responsible is:

su -s /bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/popularity-contest nobody

When run manually it doesn't exist straight away after the error message
so I presume that popularity-contest actually finishes its job, i.e.
SUBMITTED=no changes to SUBMITTED=yes.

Give me a shout if you need me to do any more testing.

Regards,

rjc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]  0.160
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.42
ii  dpkg                    1.16.2

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                             3.0pl1-121
ii  masqmail [mail-transport-agent]  0.2.30-1

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron  2.3-17

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