Hi,
I upgraded an existing VE based on ubuntu 8.04 to ubuntu 8.10 (x86_64) and now the klogd startup script gets stuck on launch. I can disable it using update-rc.d, but then other services (that require presence of logger) get stuck.
strace of klogd (when invoked as "/sbin/klogd -- -P /var/run/klogd/kmsg -d") shows following:
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open("/var/run/klogd/klogd.pid", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x401d20, [TERM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f6bfe329060}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f6bfe87e770) = 2282
--- 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},
Note the SIGCHLD line above, this does not happen on real machine.
No failcnt's get increased and nothing is reported on the host node (2.6.24-19-openvz x86_64).
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Arie