[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng Crashes on CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) - Segfaults

[Balazs Scheidler]

This should be a useful post that CzanikP just posted:

https://www.balabit.com/blog/installing-latest-syslog-ng-on-rhel-and-other-rpm-distributions/



On Dec 12, 2016 10:44 AM, "Traiano Welcome" <traiano at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi List
>
> syslog-ng 3.5.6 fails to start up on a newly installed CentOS 7 server:
>
> Environment details:
>
> OS: 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64
> Distro: CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
> Syslog-ng: syslog-ng-3.5.6-3.el7.x86_64
>
> I'm doing a fresh install on CentOS linux and installing syslog ng from
> epel-release repo. syslog-ng fails to start up via systemd as follows:
>
> systemctl restart syslog-ng
>
> Job for syslog-ng.service failed because a fatal signal was delivered to
> the control process. See "systemctl status syslog-ng.service" and
> "journalctl -xe" for details.
>
> Looking at journalctl -xe output:
>
>
> - Unit syslog-ng.service has failed.
>
> --
>
> -- The result is failed.
>
> Dec 12 09:40:40 ip-172-31-23-167 systemd[1]: Unit syslog-ng.service
> entered failed state.
>
> Dec 12 09:40:40 ip-172-31-23-167 systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service failed.
>
> Dec 12 09:40:40 ip-172-31-23-167 systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service holdoff
> time over, scheduling restart.
>
> Dec 12 09:40:40 ip-172-31-23-167 systemd[1]: Starting System Logger
> Daemon...
>
> -- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has begun start-up
>
> -- Defined-By: systemd
>
> -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
>
> --
>
> -- Unit syslog-ng.service has begun starting up.
>
> Dec 12 09:40:40 ip-172-31-23-167 kernel: syslog-ng[9920]: segfault at 0 ip
>           (null) sp 00007fff5bbba5b8 error 14 in syslog-ng[400000+2000]
>
> Dec 12 09:40:40 ip-172-31-23-167 systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service: main
> process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
>
> Dec 12 09:40:40 ip-172-31-23-167 systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logger
> Daemon.
>
> -- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has failed
>
> -- Defined-By: systemd
>
> -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
>
> --
>
> -- Unit syslog-ng.service has failed.
>
>
>
> Would anyone know how to fix this, or if this is a bug?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Traiano
>
>
>
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