[Bug 790538] Re: pam update causes cron to stop working with "Module is unknown" error

[Gabriel Galibourg]

For those who haven't restarted cron:
As expected, since cron is dead, unattended-upgrade does not start thus fix is not being installed automatically.
apt-get update + upgrade does work and cron does not need a restart.
But it still means a manual intervention to fix the problem, great ... not :-(
May I dare suggest an improvement in QA so that bugs like this don't filter out again.
Thanks to the team for quickly resolving the issue.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790538

Title:
  pam update causes cron to stop working with "Module is unknown" error

Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “pam” source package in Lucid:
  Fix Released
Status in “pam” source package in Maverick:
  Fix Released
Status in “pam” source package in Natty:
  Fix Released
Status in “pam” source package in Hardy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Upgrading libpam-modules from 1.1.1-4ubuntu1 to 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.2, cron stopped working, just gives a log message "Module is unknown". This happened during unattended-upgrades this night, so there might be a lot of people who didn't realize that yet.
  Downgrading to 1.1.1-4ubuntu1 fixes this.
  Ubuntu 10.10 amd64, almost vanilla, fresh, minimum install + java (ppa) + postgresql9 (ppa).