syslogd hangs on startup

[Paul Howarth]

Brian Long wrote:
> FYI, this is on FC3 running all the latest errata.  No one has seen
> syslogd hang like this?  Any ideas how I can figure out why nanosleep is
> hanging?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> /Brian/
> 
> On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 10:16, Brian Long wrote:
> 
>>I just ran "yum update" and rebooted.  syslogd hung on startup, so I
>>rebooted into single-user mode, ran "chkconfig syslog off" and booted
>>back up into runlevel 5.
>>
>>When I run "strace syslogd -m 0", it hangs forever at the nanosleep call
>>below:
>>
>>set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xf6ff1aa0,
>>limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0,
>>limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
>>munmap(0xf6ff2000, 55869)               = 0
>>getpid()                                = 4280
>>chdir("/")                              = 0
>>brk(0)                                  = 0x9d36000
>>brk(0x9d57000)                          = 0x9d57000
>>open("/var/run/syslogd.pid", O_RDONLY)  = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Is there some problem with your /var/run/syslogd.pid permissions? Maybe 
an selinux issue?

Paul.