2010/2/26 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>:
>> > I just verified the case. I get the failure if xconsole is not
>> active, what
>> > is perfectly OK IMHO (because otherwise it would block on the pipe).
>> As soon
>> > as I start xconsole, everything works fine and messages are displayed
>> in
>> > xconsole. When I stop xconsole I get "broken pipe" errors and if I
>> restart it
>> > everything works again.
>> >
>> > So I do not see an issue. I tested on Debian lenny with all current
>> updates
>> > applied.
>>
>> hm, it's perfectly reproducible here.
>
> also on Debian lenny? Anything else I could do to set up my environment so
> that the problem occurs?

I'm can reproduce the problem, both on Debian lenny and Debian unstable (i386)

>> starting rsyslogd, then xconsole, will cause xconsole to hang and no
>> message is written to the xconsole window.
>> 4.4.2 did not behave that way.
>>
>> See also the debug log I sent previously
>
> The log tells me that it has a problem to write to the pipe, and thus ignores
> it. This also happens at my system, but only if xconsole is not running. So
> the debug log does no help very much this time.

The problem is, that xconsole is running at this point!
To reiterate:
I start rsyslogd
then xconsole
then try to log a message
The result is the debug log and no message showing up in xconsole.

Michael



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