Re: troubleshoot hung syslogd?

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.xen,gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
--
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.