Your message dated Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:51:35 +0000 with message-id <e1vnzwp-0001rb...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#729991: fixed in syslog-ng 3.5.2-1 has caused the Debian Bug report #729991, regarding syslog-ng-core uninstallable to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 729991: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729991 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems
--- Begin Message ---package: syslog.ng-core severity: grave version: 3.5.1-1 <http://packages.debian.org/source/testing/syslog-ng> On testing installing syslog-ng-core with no previous syslog-ng config files you end up in a dpkg failure mess. It complains about file() directives in the source clauses of the config files of syslog-ng but there are no such things in the default config files. --- aptitude buffer --- root@drake~# aptitude install -R syslog-ng-core The following NEW packages will be installed: syslog-ng-core 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/356 kB of archives. After unpacking 1,398 kB will be used. Selecting previously unselected package syslog-ng-core. (Reading database ... 56636 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking syslog-ng-core (from .../syslog-ng-core_3.5.1-1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up syslog-ng-core (3.5.1-1) ... Processing triggers for syslog-ng-core ... [ ok ] Stopping system logging: syslog-ng. [....] Starting system logging: syslog-ngUnable to determine how to monitor this file, follow_freq() unset and it is not possible to poll it with the current ivykis polling method. Set follow-freq() for regular files or change IV_EXCLUDE_POLL_METHOD environment variable to override the automatically selected polling method; filename='/dev/kmsg', fd='9' Error initializing message pipeline; failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript syslog-ng, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing syslog-ng-core (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: syslog-ng-core E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up syslog-ng-core (3.5.1-1) ... Processing triggers for syslog-ng-core ... [ ok ] Stopping system logging: syslog-ng. [....] Starting system logging: syslog-ngUnable to determine how to monitor this file, follow_freq() unset and it is not possible to poll it with the current ivykis polling method. Set follow-freq() for regular files or change IV_EXCLUDE_POLL_METHOD environment variable to override the automatically selected polling method; filename='/dev/kmsg', fd='9' Error initializing message pipeline; failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript syslog-ng, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing syslog-ng-core (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: syslog-ng-core --- aptitude buffer --- also at http://paste.debian.net/66688/ The interesting part is ofc(?) the failure from the daemon start. Unable to determine how to monitor this file, follow_freq() unset and it is not possible to poll it with the current ivykis polling method. Set follow-freq() for regular files or change IV_EXCLUDE_POLL_METHOD environment variable to override the automatically selected polling method; filename='/dev/kmsg', fd='9' Error initializing message pipeline; My syslog-ng internals knowledge fails me here. grasping for straws. or rather greping for them: root@drake~# grep -ir kmsg /etc/syslog-ng/* root@drake~# grep -ir kmsg /etc/syslog-ng/ root@drake~# grep -ir dev /etc/syslog-ng/ /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:# The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the nsole' utility. To use it, /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:# $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:destination d_xconsole { pipe("/dev/xconsole"); }; root@drake~# grep -ir freq /etc/syslog-ng/ /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf: owner("root"); group("adm"); perm(0640); stats_freq(0); I can provide more data as needed. The system is working properly (as far as I can tell) without the syslog-ng process. -- brother
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--- Begin Message ---Source: syslog-ng Source-Version: 3.5.2-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of syslog-ng, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 729...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Gergely Nagy <alger...@madhouse-project.org> (supplier of updated syslog-ng package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:19:51 +0100 Source: syslog-ng Binary: syslog-ng syslog-ng-dbg syslog-ng-dev syslog-ng-core syslog-ng-mod-json syslog-ng-mod-mongodb syslog-ng-mod-sql syslog-ng-mod-smtp syslog-ng-mod-amqp syslog-ng-mod-geoip syslog-ng-mod-redis syslog-ng-mod-stomp Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 3.5.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: syslog-ng maintainers <syslog-ng-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Gergely Nagy <alger...@madhouse-project.org> Description: syslog-ng - Enhanced system logging daemon (metapackage) syslog-ng-core - Enhanced system logging daemon (core) syslog-ng-dbg - Enhanced system logging daemon (debug symbols) syslog-ng-dev - Enhanced system logging daemon (development files) syslog-ng-mod-amqp - Enhanced system logging daemon (AMQP plugin) syslog-ng-mod-geoip - Enhanced system logging daemon (GeoIP plugin) syslog-ng-mod-json - Enhanced system logging daemon (JSON plugin) syslog-ng-mod-mongodb - Enhanced system logging daemon (MongoDB plugin) syslog-ng-mod-redis - Enhanced system logging daemon (Redis plugin) syslog-ng-mod-smtp - Enhanced system logging daemon (SMTP plugin) syslog-ng-mod-sql - Enhanced system logging daemon (SQL plugin) syslog-ng-mod-stomp - Enhanced system logging daemon (STOMP plugin) Closes: 729575 729991 Changes: syslog-ng (3.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=high . [ Gergely Nagy <alger...@madhouse-project.org> ] * New upstream release. + Fix the system() source on older Linux kernels (Closes: #729991) + Fix kernel timestamp computation on 32-bit systems (Closes: #729575) * Added a missing GPL-2+ license block to debian/copyright. * Correctly install the pkg-config file to /usr/lib/pkgconfig. * Updated the Vcs-* fields to point to debian.org resources. * Updated the package descriptions to be more similar to the upstream one. * Urgency set to high, due to the RC bugfix on 32-bit architectures. 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