FYI, this is on FC3 running all the latest errata. No one has seen syslogd hang like this? Any ideas how I can figure out why nanosleep is hanging? Thank you. /Brian/ On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 10:16, Brian Long wrote: > I just ran "yum update" and rebooted. syslogd hung on startup, so I > rebooted into single-user mode, ran "chkconfig syslog off" and booted > back up into runlevel 5. > > When I run "strace syslogd -m 0", it hangs forever at the nanosleep call > below: > > set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xf6ff1aa0, > limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, > limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 > munmap(0xf6ff2000, 55869) = 0 > getpid() = 4280 > chdir("/") = 0 > brk(0) = 0x9d36000 > brk(0x9d57000) = 0x9d57000 > open("/var/run/syslogd.pid", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0xe81104, [TERM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, > 0x138a48}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 > clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID| > SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xf6ff1ae8) = 4281 > --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 > rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 > nanosleep({300, 0}, > > Any ideas how to get this working again? > > kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 > sysklogd-1.4.1-22 > > Thank you. > > /Brian/ -- Brian Long | | | IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s