Subject: bug#31113: closed (Re: bug#31113: mcron ERROR: In procedure mktime:)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 22:17:02 +0000

Your bug report

#31113: mcron ERROR: In procedure mktime:

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#31113: mcron ERROR: In procedure mktime:
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Rutger Helling <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:16:08 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello,

Rutger Helling <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I had this problem too. 
>
> Reverting commit cfbf6de18cc70d2e385feb5f61f9363f18e78ddf (gnu: mcron:
> Update to 1.1 and deprecate "mcron2".) fixed it for me.

This was a bug in mcron 1.1.

Fixed in commit 67a51b675538065a4ec3eb06428d8a4021fdbb87, which updates
to 1.1.1.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

Subject: mcron ERROR: In procedure mktime:
From: George myglc2 Clemmer <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:08:38 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello,

somewhere between March ~17 (commit be5ed1421 gnu: Add terraform-docs.)
and April ~5 (commit cfb55cfc4 gnu: Add java-native-access-platform.)
mcron-service stopped working and started throwing errors like ...

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
ERROR: In procedure mktime:
Wrong type (expecting exact integer): 45.0
Backtrace:
           4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/422ngw911hz62510b33wdvrp1a6?")
   In mcron/base.scm:
      103:25  3 (add-job #<procedure 847880 at mcron/job-specifier.scm?> ?)
   In mcron/job-specifier.scm:
      251:32  2 (_ 1523292689)
   In mcron/vixie-time.scm:
      381:15  1 (_ _)
   In unknown file:
              0 (mktime #(0 45.0 +inf.0 9 3 118 1 98 1 14400 "EDT") #<u?>)
ERROR: In procedure mktime:
...
#+END_EXAMPLE

Please see system config attached (my /etc/gen/x/010/sys.scm)

TIA - George