On a box upgraded from 10.10 -> 11.04 -> 11.10, I also have this problem, and it causes my machine to crash -- I have multiple entries in my syslog in which this is the last message before my system crashes:
Feb 3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.1" x-pid="546" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] start Feb 3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103 Feb 3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101 Feb 3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ] Feb 3 23:21:26 grickle-grass kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset This was causing my machine to crash one or more times a day. I've commented out the relevant block in the /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf and things seem to be OK, but this would be a great bug to quash directly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459730 Title: rsyslog doesn't create /dev/xconsole To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/459730/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
