Bug#793814: Workaround for this bug

[Stefano]

Same here. I have a git server with clients connecting every 10 minutes or
so via SSH, and the problem is exactly the same.

About 20 hours from reboot logind goes nuts, then it must be restarted at
very variable intervals, about a couple a day.

-- 
Stefano
Il 15/ott/2015 01:27, "James Bottomley" <
James.Bottomley at hansenpartnership.com> ha scritto:

> On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 01:06 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Am 15.10.2015 um 00:34 schrieb James Bottomley:
> > > On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 00:30 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > >> Am 15.10.2015 um 00:16 schrieb James Bottomley:
> > >>> Since there doesn't seem to have been any progress on this from the
> > >>> systemd side, and I'm really tired of my email users yelling at me
> > >>> (justifiably since once the systemd-logind service dies, dovecot sasl
> > >>> fails to work and they can't send email), this is the script I came
> up
> > >>> with to alleviate the problem:
> > >>
> > >> So are you restarting dbus as well for some reason?
> > >
> > > You can't really restart dbus in a systemd system...  However, the
> > > problem seems to be the endpoint stops listening.  systemd-logind is
> > > still running but strace -p shows it no longer responds when something
> > > contacts the end point.  If you restart it, it will listen for a while
> > > before stopping again.
> >
> > If in your case you are not restarting dbus, can you isolate what's
> > causing logind to stop responding on your system?
> > I.e., can you provide us with steps how to reproduce the issue.
>
> It happens naturally in a running system.  This one supplies
> sparkleshare sync services for shared and backup directories, so there
> are a huge number of micro sshd logins doing syncs, SASL via dovecot for
> postfix and dovecot itself.  It's not based on LDAP, so everything goes
> via the password file based authenticator.
>
> The logs indicate that from reboot to first timeout took about 20 hours.
> Thereafter, the timeouts seem to increase in frequency to about two or
> three an hour.
>
> James
>
>
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