Package: sysklogd Version: 1.4.1-17 Today my system (sarge, pentium4) hung during boot after printing "Starting system log daemon: syslogd" (without the terminating full-stop).
It turned out the reason was the size of the file /var/log/syslog, which was exactly 2147483647 (2GB), and the last line in that log file was obviously unfinished. Looks like syslogd cannot handle files >= 2GB. My opinion is that it may be tolerable that syslogd stops writing to very large logfiles, since logfiles rarely get this large, but nevertheless it must not have blocked the next reboot, especially without indicating what the problem is. The file system that I use (ext3) can handle files >2GB, I've just tested that. In case you wonder why my log file was that large, I have debugging turned on in usb-storage kernel configuration, and just yesterday, I've used usb-storage a lot. Regards, Tobias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
