From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [fr] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i686) Description of problem: My bad syslogd.conf file ends by *.* /dev/tty12 * When syslogd starts, there is a warning message about this problem. But when I try to switch to another console, the computer freezes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.4-7 How reproducible: Always (on the same computer) Steps to Reproduce: 1.Modify /etc/syslogd.conf 2.Restart syslog 3.Switch to another console Actual Results: The computer freeze Additional info: The computer is under kernel 2.2.19
I have found that syslogd on RH 7.1 attempts to restart 6 times. The restart mechanism is incorrect, and tries to spawn too many syslogd daemons. I have also found that attempting a shutdown or xinetd restart during that time will cause hard lockup or oops. In my particular case, I'm using SMP. This is the second time I've hit this problem, and it should be moved up in priority.
Just clearing out old bugs here. This bug was fixed a long time ago, but never got closed. It is certainly fixed in the current version of syslog: sysklogd-1.41-22.