After some work done here, it looks like the *cause* of this error is when $file is undefined in /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles and that only happens if /etc/syslog.conf mentions a file which actually doesn't exist. This could happen, I suppose, although I'm not entirely sure how.
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