I saw the same issue rolling out a new VM using 14.04.1 I was able to resolve the issue by commenting out this line in rsyslog.conf:
#$ModLoad imklog # provides kernel logging support log example: (repeated millions of times) Sep 17 00:15:43 mi2 rsyslogd: message repeated 498 times: [imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor] Sep 17 00:15:49 mi2 rsyslogd-2177: rsyslogd[internal_messages]: 4572709 messages lost due to rate-limiting Sep 17 00:15:49 mi2 rsyslogd: imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor Sep 17 00:15:49 mi2 rsyslogd: message repeated 498 times: [imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor] Sep 17 00:15:55 mi2 rsyslogd-2177: rsyslogd[internal_messages]: 4692976 messages lost due to rate-limiting Sep 17 00:15:55 mi2 rsyslogd: imklog: error reading kernel log - shutting down: Bad file descriptor -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1366829 Title: Updating to rsyslog - 7.4.4-1ubuntu2.1 makes rsyslogd to take all the CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/1366829/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
