[syslog-ng] syslg-ng hangs on damnsmalllinux boot

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 23:27 +0100, Heiko Blume wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i try to run syslog-ng 2.0.0 compiled with eventlog-0.25
> and glib-2.12.4 on damnsmalllinux 3.0.1 (knoppix variant
> based on linux 2.4.26).
> 
> It is started in a script like this which is called from bootlocal.sh
> 
> sudo /opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng \
>         --cfgfile=/opt/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf \
>         --chroot=/data/var/log \
>         --user=65534 \
>         --group=65534
> 
> unfortunately it will hang causing mischief, like
> programs blocking on it, so the boot script does not complete
> and no login is possible at all.
> it can only be killed with "-9".

You don't have two /proc/kmsg sources or klogd and syslog-ng running in
parallel, do you?

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Bazsi