I have an idea... some time ago we had problems that the child process (the one backgrounded ) had problems signaling the parent (startup process) that it finished initializing. This currently (and historically has been) done via kill(). I think I'll give it a try to move it to some other method. I'll try to work on this today. It would be great if Whissi could try out any patch that will result from that work...
Rainer 2014-10-20 6:48 GMT+02:00 David Lang <[email protected]>: > The only time I have seen this happen is when there are a LOT of messages > being generated at boot time, and rsyslog fills it's queue and can't > deliver the messages (frequently because they're trying to go to a database > or remote machine that's not up yet) > > If you configure impstats to write directly to a file, you can see what > the queue sizes are like at startup, both normally and when you have a > problem. > > If the queue fills up you can't login because ssh and login will try to > log the fact that you are logging in (especially if you are trying to get > to root) and block until the log is accepted by the syslog daemon. > > the default queue size is pretty large (10k or 100k messages IIRC), but I > can see this being exceeded on systems that have either very verbose device > drivers or some ongoing problem. > > David Lang > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, Thomas D. wrote: > > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:29:45 +0200 >> From: Thomas D. <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] 1/30 Reboots will fail due to rsyslog >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I created a VM to trigger this and it works very well. >> >> But only if I don't start with "-dn". In debug mode, when rsyslogd won't >> fork, I am yet unable to trigger this (tried about 80 restarts). >> >> When rsyslog forks on start triggering the hang works well, but because >> I don't have a shell I cannot do anything :/ >> But the system reacts on CTRL+ALT+DEL... >> >> Any idea what I can do to track this down? >> >> >> -Thomas >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> DON'T LIKE THAT. >> >> _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
