2014-09-18 14:10 GMT+02:00 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>:
> Hi all, > > as it looks, 7.6.5 also seems to have some issues, at least on CENTOS 6. I > have asked Andre to pull the version off the archive. This morning, we have > been analyzing the problem and it looks like something goes pretty wrong > during startup. > > It turns out that it was a pretty bad idea to release another v7 version > after so many month of release inactivity on that branch. Since 7.6.3, > there have been a lot of patches to the codebase. While all of them work > well in v8 (at least no problem reports seen), they seem to have troubles > with the v7 codebase. Given the fact that v7 is dead from the projects PoV, > I am spending considerable effort to get this dead thing back to working > (instead of coding productive things in the active v8 branches). To solve > the issue, I'll now see if I can start with 7.6.3 and chery-pick some of > the important patches and leave out less important ones. Hopefully this > will result in a 7.6.6 that finally works again. > > update: as it looks now, there is indeed a bug in the v7 codebase (but not v8) that *so far* had no implications. However, on some platforms, it seems to cause the issue. Last week, this was not the case (7.6.4), but in the iterim some system updates seem to have been pushed for CENTOS which causes this bug (that is a pure rsyslog bug) to be triggered. We are still investigating it, but think we have now a good handle at the situation. We have experimentally brought the CENTOS 6 x64 packages online again, if someone would like to test. Note that the bug happens *immediately* during startup and NOT when rsyslog got past the startup stage. If this turns out to be the sole cause, we will stick with 7.6.5 and its changes. I still will be extra-careful in the future when planning new realses of long not released outdated rsyslog versions. Sorry again for the hassle. Rainer > For the time being, I suggest staying with 7.6.3. > > Sorry for all the hassle. In the future, I'll be even more careful with > creating new releases of no longer supported versions. > > Rainer > > 2014-09-16 18:21 GMT+02:00 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>: > >> Hi folks, >> >> it looks like there is a problem with 7.6.4. It seems to misinterpret the >> traditional priority based filters. For the time being, I recommend *not* >> to install it. I am looking at the problem and a fix will probably be >> available soon (that's most probably one of the "can't I sneak in a small >> unproblematic little change into the stable" issue...). >> >> Sorry for the hassle. >> Rainer >> > > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
