[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng completely unusable after upgrade

[James Lay]

On 2014-07-09 17:14, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> James Lay <jlay at slave-tothe-box.net> writes:
>
>> /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -t -d -v -F -f /usr/etc/syslog-ng.conf
>>
>> open("/usr/lib/libsyslog-ng-3.3.11.so", O_RDONLY) = 10
>
> This is the problematic bit. It is opening libsyslog-ng-3.3.11.so, 
> while
> the running syslog-ng is 3.5.4.1, with modules linked against
> libsyslog-ng-3.5.4.1.so. The two shared objects conflict, and that
> causes an abort.
>
> Do you have an /usr/lib/libsyslog-ng.so? Is that a symlink to
> libsyslog-ng-3.3.11.so? If so, delete it, or make it point to
> -3.5.4.1.so instead. If you don't, then deleting 
> libsyslog-ng-3.3.11.so,
> and recompiling 3.5 should make the problem go away too.
>
> One way around this problem, to avoid it in the future, is to use
> --libdir=/usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.5 for configure, so all shared objects 
> are
> put into a private, version-specific directory. Or, you can remove 
> the
> older version of syslog-ng from the system, before upgrading.
>
> (The whys and hows of this bug is a long, and sad story, longer than 
> I
> can explain before falling asleep. Sorry!)

Thank you...that was the issue.

James