/var/log/messages is scrambled!

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 08:25 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 02/27/2014 08:08 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 07:10 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> On 02/27/2014 06:43 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> sudo journalctl --verify
> >>>> all say 'PASS'
> >>>
> >>> OK good news. It looks like some sort of throttling by rsyslogd. I'm vaguely curious if it's some runaway/annoyed process is dumping a lot of message into the journal, and whether the journal can keep up or if it's also affected and throttles.
> >
> >> Could it be (wild guess), rsyslogd and journald when being used
> >> simultaneously, are having locking issues?
> >
> > I really doubt it. The current rsyslog is explicitly designed to act as
> > a journald consumer. That was the intent all along.
> 
> How about log-messages on the console?
> 
> The symptom I am struggling with is my console is freezing when journald 
> sent a message to the console.
> 
> Some weeks ago, I reported the details on some fp.org list (IRC users@), 
> but never received a satisfactory reply. So far, after weeks of 
> struggling my (so far seeingly working) work-around is to "yum remove 
> rsyslogd combined with "dmsg -D", without knowing the actual cause.

Hum - seems odd, but I don't get console log messages very often so I
can't say I haven't seen it. Certainly sounds like a bug. If I were you
I'd just file it, probably against rsyslog.
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