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rsyslog package

  1. Bug #459730
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 459730

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scw (shaun-walbridge) wrote :

On a box upgraded from 10.10 -> 11.04 -> 11.10, I also have this problem, and it causes my machine to crash -- I have multiple entries in my syslog in which this is the last message before my system crashes:

Feb 3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.1" x-pid="546" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start
Feb 3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103
Feb 3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
Feb 3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
Feb 3 23:21:26 grickle-grass kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset

This was causing my machine to crash one or more times a day. I've commented out the relevant block in the /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf and things seem to be OK, but this would be a great bug to quash directly.