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PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 2:26 am    Post subject: Minor annoyance with vixie-cron and vcron... Reply with quote

Through a routine I would rather not get into I now have this on boot up:
Code:

* Caching service dependencies...
* Service 'vcron' already provide 'cron'!;
* Not adding service 'vixie-cron'...

I have vcron installed not vixie-cron(yes, I realize that they are both the same thing now). My problem is that no matter how many times I use the rc-update command I can't get rid of the above message, is there another way to fix this?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 3:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I forget exactly what I had to do to get mine to work, but try this (may not be in correct order):
Code:
emerge unmerge vcron
emerge vixie-cron
rm /etc/init.d/vcron
depscan.sh
rc-update del vcron
rc-update del vixie-cron
rc-update add vixie-cron default
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, that did it...
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 2:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same problem - thanks for solution (worked) :)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

same here *lovebomb*
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:11 pm    Post subject: Same problem, works now Reply with quote

Thanks for the soulution! ;)
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This was the first post I checked for a solution and it worked great.
Thanks.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Amazingly, tomk has found a plethora of people who were all asking about the vixie-cron / vcron thing. This is the official solution thread to that issue. If you have more problems with this, please post here. Also, I have made this post sticky in a desperate attempt to prevent more dups.

tomk wrote:
Noticed a few of these *cron posts recently. These are the dupes I've found:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=114461
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=124942
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=124214
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=120640
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=119611
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=119166
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=115113
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=105625
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=104659
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=69621

This seems to be the definative answer:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121455

Edit: one more i missed

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=126998

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

chocoba65 wrote:
I forget exactly what I had to do to get mine to work, but try this (may not be in correct order):
Code:
emerge unmerge vcron
emerge vixie-cron
rm /etc/init.d/vcron
depscan.sh
rc-update del vcron
rc-update del vixie-cron
rc-update add vixie-cron default

i dont think you even have to do that much, ive had the same problem but with kernel logger and solved it t his way:

Code:

/etc/init.d/sysklogd stop
rm /etc/init.d/sysklogd
rc-update del sysklogd default
emerge syslog-ng
rc-update add syslog-ng default


thats it
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

chocoba65 wrote:
I forget exactly what I had to do to get mine to work, but try this (may not be in correct order):
Code:
emerge unmerge vcron
emerge vixie-cron
rm /etc/init.d/vcron
depscan.sh
rc-update del vcron
rc-update del vixie-cron
rc-update add vixie-cron default


IIRC, I did it a bit quicker:
Code:
# emerge unmerge vcron
# rc-update del vcron
(optional) # rm /etc/init.d/vcron
# emerge vixie-cron
# rc-update add vixie-cron default

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cool, thx this did fix alot of problems for me :)
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If we must rename this thing, we need to do it everywhere. The entry for vcron in the online package database still says:

Quote:
vcron

Description: The Vixie cron daemon
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I cant unmerge vcron because emerge unmerge vcron tells me that it cant find a match for vcron.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rickj wrote:
If we must rename this thing, we need to do it everywhere. The entry for vcron in the online package database still says:

Quote:
vcron

Description: The Vixie cron daemon
Have you posted a bug report?

cybermans wrote:
I cant unmerge vcron because emerge unmerge vcron tells me that it cant find a match for vcron.
What is the exact error message? Also, what does emerge -s vcron show?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

meanmachine dev # emerge -s vcron
Searching...
[ Results for search key : vcron ]
[ Applications found : 0 ]
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can skip the step where you unmerge vcron as it is not installed on your system.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't unmerge it either. Is there a way to manually remove it?

Code:
larnyx vixie-cron # emerge -C vcron
 
!!! Couldn't find match for vcron
 
>>> unmerge: No packages selected for removal.
 
larnyx vixie-cron # depscan.sh
 * Caching service dependencies...
 *  Service 'vcron' already provide 'cron'!;
 *  Not adding service 'vixie-cron'...
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="masseya"]
rickj wrote:
If we must rename this thing, we need to do it everywhere. The entry for vcron in the online package database still says:

Quote:
vcron

Description: The Vixie cron daemon
Have you posted a bug report?


Ouch! I intended to, but got distracted. It's now bug #39992 :oops:
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lmeadors wrote:
I can't unmerge it either. Is there a way to manually remove it?
Try re-emerging it and then removing it.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 2:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think "Major Annoyance ..." or even better "Pointless Annoyance ..." would be a better title for this thread.

I wonder how many human hours were spent worldwide trying to figure out the vcron -> vixie-cron renaming?

I hope the Gentoo devs learned a lesson from this useless re-factoring of package names. Somehow, I doubt it tho.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm sorry I can't seem to get this, but I've carefully done everything suggested here several times to make sure, and when one failed, I did the other, exactly as shown, again and again from scratch, and after every subsequent emerge I still get:

* Caching service dependencies...
* Service 'vcron' already provide 'cron'!;
* Not adding service 'vixie-cron'... [ ok ]
* Caching service dependencies...
* Service 'vcron' already provide 'cron'!;
* Not adding service 'vixie-cron'... [ ok ]
>>> Auto-cleaning packages ...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

What am I missing here? I've even rebooted between various attempts, to make sure the ram cache is flushed, but none of the above solutions ever work. I hate to beat for what for some must be a dead horse, but apparently I'm just not getting it.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

wrc1944 wrote:
...after every subsequent emerge I still get:

* Caching service dependencies...
* Service 'vcron' already provide 'cron'!;

Perhaps
Code:
rm /etc/init.d/vcron

will do the trick?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
rm /etc/init.d/vcron

That's what I've did and it worked.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:25 am    Post subject: Thanks for the solution Reply with quote

Thanks for the solution. This had me going for a while. Until i decided to do a seach in the forums.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 9:11 pm    Post subject: Annoying Reply with quote

Hi All,

I was the one responsible for moving the package name. In the end the move's implementation obviously left much to be desired. Please accept my apology for this. Lesson learned. If I have to subject users to a move like this again, I'll be sure to make a cleaner path for you.
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