Re: troubleshoot hung syslogd?
Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:19:31AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Can anyone share some ideas on troubleshooting syslogd that is hung? > > It has happened to me yesterday and sometime this morning. > > Yesterday, it couldn't log any messages. I couldn't kill it until I used > -SIGKILL. > > Today, noticed it again. Can't log via it. > > top says it is in "ttyout" state. ps says "Is" (so normal). I would say it can't write to the console. > [...] > > This is a Xen instance: NetBSD 3.1 (XEN3_DOMU) i386. Can you connect to console via 'xm console' ? is it alive ? A bug that could hang the console has been fixed since 3.1; please also try a newer kernel from netbsd-3 or netbsd-3-1 (the patch went in both branches) -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. [email protected] NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --