Is your /etc/cron.daily/apt executable?

[dankegel]

I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 a few
months ago, and recently I noticed that it wasn't getting
automatically updated. A little searching found
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/356152
in which someone said this was because /etc/cron.daily/apt
wasn't executable. Sure enough, doing
sudo chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/apt
sudo rm /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily
rebooting and logging in again fixed the problem.

My question is, how widespread is this problem? Try
$ ls -l /etc/cron.daily/apt
If you see no 'x' permissions, e.g. if you see
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8686 2009-04-16 21:27 /etc/cron.daily/apt
then you've got the problem. Please let me know if
this affects any of your computers. Thanks!

[dcstar]

I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 a few
months ago, and recently I noticed that it wasn't getting
automatically updated. A little searching found
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/356152
in which someone said this was because /etc/cron.daily/apt
wasn't executable. Sure enough, doing
sudo chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/apt
sudo rm /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily
rebooting and logging in again fixed the problem.

My question is, how widespread is this problem? Try
$ ls -l /etc/cron.daily/apt
If you see no 'x' permissions, e.g. if you see
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8686 2009-04-16 21:27 /etc/cron.daily/apt
then you've got the problem. Please let me know if
this affects any of your computers. Thanks!

All are set correctly on my system (fresh install):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8686 2009-04-17 14:26 apt

Upgrading may be another situation (I never upgrade because of little issues such as this).

[Aaron44126]

Did you upgrade via 'do-release-upgrade' (command-line method)?

This happened to me on two machines that were upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 with this method. Machines upgraded with the GUI method continue to check for updates fine.