Bug 1483664

Summary: rsyslogd-2040: fatal error on disk queue 'action 1 queue[DA]'
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: SHAURYA <sshaurya>
Component: rsyslogAssignee: Jiří Vymazal <jvymazal>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 7.4CC: dkopecek, sdordevi, sshaurya
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Description SHAURYA 2017-08-21 16:33:20 UTC 
Description of problem:

Consistently seeing these error messages in /var/log/messages-

rsyslogd-2040: fatal error on disk queue 'action 1 queue[DA]', emergency switch to direct mode [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2040 ]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

rsyslog-8.24.0-12.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install rsyslog
2. Make the queue corrupt under /var/lib/rsyslog/*.qi

Actual results:

Cryptic error message

Expected results:

Should give more detailed error message

Additional info:

On github