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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100
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+
+# IRC, unknown channel, unknown date
+
+ <tschwinge> scolobb: In wiki edit 60accafa79f645ae61b578403f7fc0c11914b725
+ I see that you intend(ed) to use syslog for logging debug messages. I
+ thought I'd point you to
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-02/msg00042.html -- no
+ idea if that's still an issue or what went wrong at that time. Perhaps
+ you can have a look?
+ <scolobb> tschwinge: Thanks for information! Currently I'm logging some
+ debug messages to a simple file, but I'll now check whether the issue
+ you've pointed out is still present.
+ <scolobb> tschwinge: I am getting absolutely abnormal results: when I call
+ syslog() from a simple C program for the first time, the message goes to
+ the system log. However, any further calls to syslog() do just
+ nothing... I am able to send something to syslog only after reboot (it
+ doesn't help if I restart syslogd).
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-08
+
+ < pinotree> wow, `logger` + a simple C udp server can cause havoc
+ < pinotree> youpi: ever seen something like
+ http://paste.debian.net/hidden/72cf4b77/ ?
+ < pinotree> and then also other servers (like pflocal, pfinet, few more)
+ start becoming crazy (using 100% cpu)
+ < youpi> nope
+ < pinotree> iirc in one of the few tries i got the message "Resource lost."
+ from the closed ssh connection
+ < pinotree> i was trying to see why syslog doesn't work, but this basically
+ surprised me...
+ < pinotree> oh, i found an apparently working syslog daemon
+ < pinotree> dsyslog
+ < gg0> have you tried syslog-ng? IIRC it writes in /var/log/messages by
+ default.
+ < pinotree> yeah, it seems to stop receiving messages are few
+ < pinotree> gg0: are you using syslog-ng?
+ < gg0> pinotree: I should fire hurd vm up. I seem I kept dirty-patched
+ busybox syslog, I don't even know if it works, at least it starts
+ http://bugs.debian.org/636162
+ < pinotree> maintainer said "not really"
+ < gg0> well, if all other syslogs use shm and sems, they won't work too,
+ right?
+ < youpi> shm should work with the latest libc
+ < youpi> what won't is sysv sem
+ < youpi> (i.e. semget)
+
+
+IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2011-11-02:
+
+ * pinotree sighs at #645790 :/
+ <tschwinge> pinotree: W.r.t. 645790 -- yeah, ``someone'' should finally
+ figure out what's going on with syslog.
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2008-07/msg00152.html
+ <tschwinge> pinotree: And this...
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-02/msg00042.html
+ <pinotree> tschwinge: i did that 20 invocations tests recently, and
+ basically none of them has been logged
+ <pinotree> tschwinge: when i started playing with logger more, as result i
+ had some server that started taking all the cpu, followed by other
+ servers and in the end my ssh connection were dropped and i had nothing
+ to do (not even login from console)
+ <tschwinge> pinotree: Sounds like ``fun''. Hopefully we can manage to
+ understand (and fix the underlying issue) why a simple syslog()
+ invocation can make the whole system instable.
+ <pinotree> tschwinge: to be honest, i got havoc in the system when i told
+ syslog to manually look for /dev/log (-u /dev/log), possibly alao when
+ telling to use a datagram socket (-d)
+ <pinotree> but even if a normal syslog() invocation does not cause havoc,
+ there's still the "lost messages" issue
+ <tschwinge> Yep. What I've been doing ever since, is deinstall all
+ *syslog* packages.
+ <tschwinge> This ``fixed'' all syslog() hangs.
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-03-28
+
+ <braunr> i can see lots of CRON processes hanging around
+ <braunr> pinotree: crontab -l was hanging too when trying to quickly see
+ what went wrong
+ <braunr> so it may be an unreleased lock of some kind
+ <antrik> braunr: do you have syslog installed by any chance?...
+ <antrik> IIRC that bug has never been fixed :-(
+ <braunr> yes syslogd is running
+ <antrik> that's probably the culprit then
+ <braunr> ok
+ <braunr> i'll just disable it for now then
+ <antrik> the error has existed for years
+ <antrik> was similar for me though: for a long time I have been hearing
+ about this issue, and only suddenly I started experiencing it myself...
+ <antrik> it depends on how many things are actually logged. IIRC the hang
+ happens when some client sends 128 messages to syslog or something like
+ that
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-02-09
+
+ <pinotree> tschwinge: looks like now you could disable syslog no
+ <pinotree> ... more
+ <tschwinge> It that working now?
+ <pinotree> should be yes, samuel fixed its issue many months ago