gnome-shell and syslog problems

[Joe Zeff]

On 05/05/2013 04:45 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> When I tried to troubleshoot that problem, I discovered
> that /var/log/messages* and some other files were empty.  It turns out
> that syslogd was dead.  I've found that it simply doesn't start on boot,
> but it starts fine when I start it by hand.  dmesg and boot.log appear
> normal AFAICT, though there is nothing in them related to syslog.

Try this as root:

systemctl enable syslog.service

I'm guessing that it either got disabled, or wasn't enabled in the first 
place.  In fact, I'm not sure, but I think it's not enabled by default, 
but my memory could easily be wrong.