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

[Heiko Blume]

Hello,

telling from the process table there are no other logd's (see below).
But i have to admit that i do not know how to check for
the "/proc/kmsg" sources you mention. i haven't been into
logging like this before :-)

however, removing the

     file("/proc/kmsg" log_prefix("kernel: "));

from the source has fixed the hanging problem.
but why? i certainly don't want to miss any messages...

thanks & regards, heiko


root         1     0  0 00:22 ?        00:00:04 init [2]
root         2     1  0 00:22 ?        00:00:00 [keventd]
root         3     1  0 00:22 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root         4     1  0 00:22 ?        00:00:00 [kswapd]
root         5     1  0 00:22 ?        00:00:00 [bdflush]
root         6     1  0 00:22 ?        00:00:00 [kupdated]
root        12     1  0 00:22 ?        00:00:00 [khubd]
root       688     1  0 00:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root      1065     1  0 00:23 ?        00:00:00 /opt/fcron/sbin/fcron -b
root      1072     1  0 00:23 tty1     00:00:00 -bash
root      1073     1  0 00:23 tty2     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 115200 tty2
root      1074     1  0 00:23 tty3     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 115200 tty3
root      1075     1  0 00:23 tty4     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 115200 tty4
root      1103   688  0 00:24 ?        00:00:00 sshd: nx [priv]
root      1124   688  0 00:24 ?        00:00:00 sshd: dsl [priv]
root      1279  1276  0 00:24 ttyp0    00:00:00 bash
nobody    1294     1  0 12:46 ?        00:00:00
/opt/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng --cfgfile=/opt/syslog-ng/etc/syslog-ng.conf
--chroot=/data/var/log --user=65534 --group=65534



> 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?
>
> --
> Bazsi
>
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