syslogd hangs on startup
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Dec 22 13:28:27 UTC 2004
Brian Long wrote:
> FYI, this is on FC3 running all the latest errata. No one has seen
> syslogd hang like this? Any ideas how I can figure out why nanosleep is
> hanging?
>
> Thank you.
>
> /Brian/
>
> On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 10:16, Brian Long wrote:
>
>>I just ran "yum update" and rebooted. syslogd hung on startup, so I
>>rebooted into single-user mode, ran "chkconfig syslog off" and booted
>>back up into runlevel 5.
>>
>>When I run "strace syslogd -m 0", it hangs forever at the nanosleep call
>>below:
>>
>>set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xf6ff1aa0,
>>limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0,
>>limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
>>munmap(0xf6ff2000, 55869) = 0
>>getpid() = 4280
>>chdir("/") = 0
>>brk(0) = 0x9d36000
>>brk(0x9d57000) = 0x9d57000
>>open("/var/run/syslogd.pid", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
Is there some problem with your /var/run/syslogd.pid permissions? Maybe
an selinux issue?
Paul.
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