Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:45:52 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with syslogd under 5.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <20040112124552.GF19402@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040112113643.GA54144@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20040112113040.GC19402@genius.tao.org.uk> <20040112113643.GA54144@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:36:43AM +0000, David Malone wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:30:40AM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > If I kill and restart syslogd by hand I get: > > > > # /usr/sbin/syslogd -s > > syslogd: timed out waiting for child > > > > Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround? > > Is your console in some wird state? (XOFF, scroll-lock-on, ...) > > There have been reports of problems like this before, but they've > been hard to pin point. > Maybe, I'm running a serial console on this machine, and I changed over to it at the same time as the problems began (at the same time I upgraded to 5.2). The serial console is a remote serial port connected to a Cisco box. Joe -- Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. ================= [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkAClv8ACgkQXVIcjOaxUBaxSgCggtt3zZhbpAsAmjOdP2pUn1OE vGEAoKNlLmRF/Le8CefpEusKM7pLLF5C =PuUV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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