[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#731742: systemd will not start syslog.socket. This causes rsyslogd to not start

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.12.2013 11:45, schrieb Bart-Jan Vrielink:
>  
> -----Original message-----
>> From:Michael Biebl <email at michaelbiebl.de <mailto:email at michaelbiebl.de> >
>> Sent: Monday 9th December 2013 11:34
>> To: Bart-Jan Vrielink <bartjan at vrielink.net <mailto:bartjan at vrielink.net> >; 731742 at bugs.debian.org <mailto:731742 at bugs.debian.org> 
>> Subject: Re: Bug#731742: systemd will not start syslog.socket. This causes rsyslogd to not start
>>
>> Am 09.12.2013 10:44, schrieb Bart-Jan Vrielink:
>>> Package: systemd
>>> Version: 204-5
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>
>>> When running under systemd, syslog.socket will not start. Because of this, rsyslog does not start via the init.d script. Rsyslogd works when invoked directly, and also when the system is booted using classic init.
>>
>> Does /dev/log already exist and is a process listening on this socket?
>> This might explain why systemd fails to start syslog.socket.
>>
>> # sudo lsof /dev/log
> 
> bartjan at fenchurch:~$ sudo lsof /dev/log
> [sudo] password for bartjan: 
> COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE     DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> systemd     1 root   27u  unix 0xf7777280      0t0 4173 /dev/log
> systemd-j 297 root    5u  unix 0xf7777280      0t0 4173 /dev/log
> bartjan at fenchurch:~$ ps -fp 297
> UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> root       297     1  0 07:54 ?        00:00:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
> bartjan at fenchurch:~$ 
> 
>> Does the problem persist after a reboot?
>> When did this problem occur? After a package upgrade or something else?
> 
> It does persist after reboot. It most likely occurred after a package upgrade.
> I have to admit that I only noticed this recently. The last entries in (logrotated) /var/log/syslog are from 2013-10-09, which is also around the time I did an upgrade from stable to testing.
> As this is a laptop, I usually don't have much reason to look at the logs...

Is rsyslog properly enabled?
# sudo systemctl status rsyslog.service
# ls -la /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service

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