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Subject: Re: syslogd blocking => can't su to root 
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> > Can you run top and find the syslogd line and see what state it is in?

> It looks like this:

> $ top 100 | grep syslog
>   190 root       4   0   932K   556K ttywai   0:02  0.00%  0.00% syslogd

It's definitely waiting for some tty - probably the console if you
are using the default syslog.conf file. Are you running xconsole
on this machine?

I can't think of an easy way to fix the problem - killing and
restarting syslogd might fix it, but there is a possibility the
console will still block when syslogd is restarted...

	David.

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