[Bug 382396] Re: syslog-ng blocking programs trying to write to /dev/log

[Elan Ruusamäe]

** Attachment added: "syslognglsof.log"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27367938/syslognglsof.log

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syslog-ng blocking programs trying to write to /dev/log
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382396
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Bug description:
package version: syslog-ng-3.0.1-14.x86_64

this is very annoying as non functional syslogd prevents you connecting to your system via ssh or use sudo.

syslog itself with strace:
# lsp syslog-ng
USER       PID  PGRP                  STARTED TT          VSZ   RSS STAT CMD
root      8814  8813 Thu May 14 02:47:20 2009 ?         36532    88 S    supervising syslog-ng
root      8815  8815 Thu May 14 02:47:20 2009 ?         36788  1068 Ss   /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -f /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf

# strace -p 8815
Process 8815 attached - interrupt to quit
futex(0x668b34, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 1, NULL