Part of the problem seems to be that the patch to allow read access to kmsg to non-root users (see bug #515623, comment 1) isn't applied to 2.6.33.2. I applied the patch (it almost worked out-of-the-box, but I needed to define SYSLOG_CONTEXT_SYSCALL in printk.c) and this resolves the problem.
The patch appears to be included in 2.6.34-rc4, but I can't test this yet as it kernel panics on my PC at some point after X starts. I still think rsyslog should default to the Debian behaviour (ie root access to kmsg) if 'de-rooting' doesn't work, but perhaps the quickest 'fix' for this is to include a release note saying that kernel logging is not supported with 2.6.33 kernels (or in fact any custom kernels prior to 2.6.34). -- rsyslog fails to read kmsg on 2.6.33 kernels https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565288 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
