[syslog-ng] "Error initializing message pipeline; plugin name='java', location='#buffer:2:3'" after update to syslog-ng 3.12

Scheidler, Balázs balazs.scheidler at balabit.com
Thu Dec 14 00:01:37 UTC 2017


We had an issue in scl argument substitution, that we already fixed on
master. actually one of the first commits to fix that is already on master.

On Dec 13, 2017 12:13, "Roegels Ruben" <ruben.roegels at netsys-it.de> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm using the OSE of syslog-ng for some weeks.
> Today I updated syslog-ng to 3.13 and afterwards I started seeing
>
> -- Unit syslog-ng.service has begun starting up.
> Dez 13 11:53:59 syslog syslog-ng[23803]: [2017-12-13T11:53:59.572246]
> Error initializing message pipeline; plugin name='java',
> location='#buffer:2:3'
> Dez 13 11:53:59 syslog systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service: Main process exited,
> code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
> Dez 13 11:53:59 syslog systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logger Daemon.
> -- Subject: Unit syslog-ng.service has failed
> -- Defined-By: systemd-13T11:53:59.572246] Error initializing message
> pipeline; plugin name='java', location='#buffer:2:3'
>
> In "journalctl -xe"
>
> If I disable the elasticsearch destination syslog-ng starts up fine.
>
> I don't know what to look at as the error message is not very meaningful
> to me.
> Did I miss some configuration format changes regarding the
> "elasticsearch2" destination?
>
> The header of my "/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf":
>
> === Snip ===
> @version: 3.13
> @module mod-java
> @include "scl.conf"
> === Snip ===
>
> My elasticsearch config for syslog-ng:
> https://pastebin.com/g6UB3gBi
>
> "ls -l {/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/,/usr/lib/syslog-ng/3.13/java-
> modules/}"
> https://pastebin.com/nqYAVhHL
>
> "cat /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/syslog-ng.service"
> https://pastebin.com/UzfQXvZL
>
> I really appreciate any help.
> Thank you!
>
> Best regards,
> Ruben
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