[Bug 2032532] Re: cron autopkgtest failure on armhf

[Matthias Klose]

apparently fixed for 25.04

** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  cron autopkgtest failure on armhf

Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in exim4 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The cron autopkgtests fail on armhf when run with exim4, blocking the
  latest exim4 merge's migration:

  https://code.launchpad.net/~bryce/ubuntu/+source/exim4/+git/exim4/+merge/448540
  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/c/cron/mantic/armhf
  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-mantic/mantic/armhf/c/cron/20230821_121833_8b636@/log.gz

  1824s autopkgtest [07:59:06]: test check-listings-protection: [-----------------------
  1826s +---------------------------------+
  1826s |  Here we are testing the patch  |
  1826s |  features/protect-list.patch    |
  1826s +---------------------------------+
  1826s ================= adding user 'dummy' =====================
  1826s info: Adding user `dummy' ...
  1826s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1826s info: Selecting UID/GID from range 1000 to 59999 ...
  1826s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1826s info: Adding new group `dummy' (1001) ...
  1826s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1826s info: Adding new user `dummy' (1001) with group `dummy (1001)' ...
  1826s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1826s info: Creating home directory `/home/dummy' ...
  1826s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1826s info: Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
  1826s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1826s info: Adding new user `dummy' to supplemental / extra groups `users' ...
  1826s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1826s info: Adding user `dummy' to group `users' ...
  1826s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1826s ========= Inject an obfuscated line into dummy's crontab ==============
  1827s ========== testing the crontab of user 'dummy' =============
  1827s ========= here is a hexa dump of $(crontab -u dummy -l) ====
  1827s 00000000  2a 20 2a 20 2a 20 2a 20  2a 20 3e 2f 74 6d 70 2f  |* * * * * >/tmp/|
  1827s 00000010  78 3b 0d 6e 6f 20 63 72  6f 6e 74 61 62 20 66 6f  |x;.no crontab fo|
  1827s 00000020  72 20 64 75 6d 6d 79 08  08 62 6f 0a              |r dummy..bo.|
  1827s 0000002c
  1827s +---------------------------------------------+
  1827s |  Good! characters
   and  were protected  |
  1827s +---------------------------------------------+
  1827s autopkgtest [07:59:09]: test check-listings-protection: -----------------------]

  1831s check-listings-protection FAIL stderr: logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1831s autopkgtest [07:59:13]: test check-listings-protection:  - - - - - - - - - - stderr - - - - - - - - - -
  1831s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1831s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1831s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1831s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1831s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1831s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument
  1831s logger: send message failed: Invalid argument

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