Droplet-agent hourly cron job failing after upgrade

Hi there,

Does this work if you were to try running the script manually to see if it outputs any errors:

sudo /etc/cron.hourly/droplet-agent

Also, check journalctl for any additional logs:

journalctl -u droplet-agent

Also would you mind confirming:

• Which Ubuntu version you upgraded from and to
• Any output from the manual run of the script
• If there are any logs in /var/log/droplet-agent.log or /opt/droplet-agent

If it still fails after a full purge and reinstall, I would recomend opening an issue at: https://github.com/digitalocean/do-agent/issues

That way the maintainers can take a closer look.

- Bobby

Heya,

Check your journal to see the exact error

journalctl -u droplet-agent

From the error we’ll be able to further troubleshoot the exact reason behind this behavior.

I’m having the exact same issue, but on Debian. I have re-installed the droplet agent twice. Still seeing this same error. Ran the script, I see no output at all. Checked the logs… no errors. Did some digging, and this is what I discovered.

This is the script right? At least it is on my system.

#!/bin/sh
/bin/bash /opt/digitalocean/droplet-agent/scripts/update.sh >/var/log/droplet-agent.update.log 2>&1

I opened that log.

Waiting 47 seconds
Checking architecture support...OK
Preparing to check for update
/opt/digitalocean/droplet-agent/scripts/update.sh: line 86: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/droplet-agent.list: No such file or directory

On my systen, that droplet-agent.list file doesn’t exist anymore. Why? because it’s been replaced by droplet-agent.sources when I ran sudo apt modernize-sources. There was a .bak file, but I assumed I didn’t need it anymore.

For now, I re-ran the install from here, again. https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/manage-agent/

That recreated the list file too.