patchmon agent filling the disk with backups of itself

[cquike]

I have been running patchmon in several machines for a while and I have now realized that the patchmon agent has completely filled the root partition by making backup copies of itself in /usr/local/bin, at a rate of about 1 per minute:

# ls /usr/local/bin/
...
patchmon-agent			       
patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_055051
patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_044339  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_045542  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_051817  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_055354
patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_044351  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_045557  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_051830  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_055805
patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_044404  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_045610  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_051956  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_055922
patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_044418  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_045625  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_052007  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_055934
patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_044432  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_045640  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_052135  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_060629
patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_044448  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_045656  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_052148  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_060646
patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_044505  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_045710  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_052204  patchmon-agent.new
patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_044521  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_045723  patchmon-agent.backup.20251117_052217
...

I have seen that only in the agent running under ARM, not under the x86_64 architecture.
This is rather critical, since I have experienced a denial of service in those servers due to this.

Thank you

[stb109]

I am experiencing the same issue. I only noticed beccause beszel warning me that the disk usage exceeded the threshold I set. It doesn't seem to be doing this on my non-ARM servers either.

EDIT: Seems like updating to 1.3.4 per the Discord has resolved the issue. (Hate that everything is in a Discord server these days...)

[cquike]

Thanks for the info @stb109 !

[robertototaro]

The problem is still present. I have two ARM servers and both went into an update loop trying to upgrade from 1.3.4 to 1.3.6. One of the two managed to download almost 9000 copies of patchmon-agent.

Edit: The amd64 servers updated just fine.

[cquike]

I have not seen this problem again since all the agents updated to 1.3.6. On my side this could be closed, but maybe others could tell whether the problem is solved for them also if all the agents are already updated.