boot hangs with rsyslog-4.4.2-5.fc13.x86_64

[Steven I Usdansky]

After updating to today's Rawhide, my system hangs on boot, the last
message displayed is, "starting system logger." Reverting to
rsyslog-4.4.2-4.fc13.x86_64 eliminates the problem. Anyone else seeing
this before I file a bz?

[Tom London]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Steven I Usdansky
 wrote:
> After updating to today's Rawhide, my system hangs on boot, the last
> message displayed is, "starting system logger." Reverting to
> rsyslog-4.4.2-4.fc13.x86_64 eliminates the problem. Anyone else seeing
> this before I file a bz?

This it?  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563348

tom

[I'm getting a segfault in rsyslogd as described in the BZ....]

[Antonio M]

2010/2/11 Tom London :
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Steven I Usdansky
>  wrote:
> > After updating to today's Rawhide, my system hangs on boot, the last
> > message displayed is, "starting system logger." Reverting to
> > rsyslog-4.4.2-4.fc13.x86_64 eliminates the problem. Anyone else seeing
> > this before I file a bz?
>
> This it?  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563348
>
> tom
> [I'm getting a segfault in rsyslogd as described in the BZ....]
> Tom London
>
> test mailing list
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> To unsubscribe:
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yes,

what do you suggest to me in order to recover the system (which rpm to
install)?? and how did you install the "new" rpm in a non-working
system??

Tnx

[Tom London]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Antonio M  wrote:
> 2010/2/11 Tom London :
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Steven I Usdansky
> >  wrote:
> > > After updating to today's Rawhide, my system hangs on boot, the last
> > > message displayed is, "starting system logger." Reverting to
> > > rsyslog-4.4.2-4.fc13.x86_64 eliminates the problem. Anyone else seeing
> > > this before I file a bz?
> >
> > This it?  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563348
> >
> > tom
> > [I'm getting a segfault in rsyslogd as described in the BZ....]
> > Tom London
> >
> > test mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe:
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
>
> yes,
>
> what do you suggest to me in order to recover the system (which rpm to
> install)?? and how did you install the "new" rpm in a non-working
> system??
> Tnx

There is a scratch build referenced here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563348#c5

Downgrading to rsyslog-4.4.2-3.fc13 may also work for you....

tom

[Steven I Usdansky]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Antonio M 
> To: For testers of Fedora development releases 
> Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 10:29:15 AM
> Subject: Re: boot hangs with rsyslog-4.4.2-5.fc13.x86_64
>
> 2010/2/11 Tom London :
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Steven I Usdansky
> > wrote:
> > > After updating to today's Rawhide, my system hangs on boot, the last
> > > message displayed is, "starting system logger." Reverting to
> > > rsyslog-4.4.2-4.fc13.x86_64 eliminates the problem. Anyone else seeing
> > > this before I file a bz?
> >
> > This it?  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563348
> >
> > tom
> > [I'm getting a segfault in rsyslogd as described in the BZ....]
> > Tom London
> >
> > test mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe:
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
>
> yes,
>
> what do you suggest to me in order to recover the system (which rpm to
> install)?? and how did you install the "new" rpm in a non-working
> system??
> Tnx

I booted another distro on my hard drive (a live image on cd or usb stick would work), downloaded the older rpm file from koji, chrooted to my Rawhide installation, then used rpm -Uvh --oldpackage to install.

[MartinG]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Steven I Usdansky
 wrote:
> I booted another distro on my hard drive (a live image on cd or usb stick would work), downloaded the older rpm file from koji, chrooted to my Rawhide installation, then used rpm -Uvh --oldpackage to install.

I added "1" as a boot parameter in grub (hold down ctrl to get to the
menu, press "a" and then " 1", enter -> boot) to get to single user
which worked. Hooked up a wired network, "ifup eth0" and fetched
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/rsyslog/4.4.2/6.fc13/x86_64/rsysl...
which I installed.

That one seems to work. Thanks!

-MartinG

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 17:29:15 +0100,
  Antonio M  wrote:
> yes,
>
> what do you suggest to me in order to recover the system (which rpm to
> install)?? and how did you install the "new" rpm in a non-working
> system??

I had the issue first start appearing with -4. It turned out there was a
timeout and if you wait several minutes the system would finish booting.

[Steven I Usdansky]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Bruno Wolff III 
> To: Antonio M 
> Cc: For testers of Fedora development releases 
> Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 12:35:33 PM
> Subject: Re: boot hangs with rsyslog-4.4.2-5.fc13.x86_64
>
> I had the issue first start appearing with -4. It turned out there was a
> timeout and if you wait several minutes the system would finish booting.
> --

I guess I'm just impatient. I wonder why I didn't have the timeout problem 
with -4. Upgraded to -6, and all appears to be well

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:43:24 -0800,
  Steven I Usdansky  wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Bruno Wolff III 
> > To: Antonio M 
> > Cc: For testers of Fedora development releases 
> > Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 12:35:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: boot hangs with rsyslog-4.4.2-5.fc13.x86_64
> >
> > I had the issue first start appearing with -4. It turned out there was a
> > timeout and if you wait several minutes the system would finish booting.
> > --
>
> I guess I'm just impatient. I wonder why I didn't have the timeout problem 
> with -4. Upgraded to -6, and all appears to be well

I used the i686 rpm which may account for the difference. One theory in the
bug tracking this is that there was a race during the build process and
some builds were getting corrupted, but maybe not all of them.