[Syslog-ng-maintainers] Bug#893258: syslog-ng-core: service syslog-ng fails on startup with a syntax error report in a config file

[Andreas Feldner]

Package: syslog-ng-core
Version: 3.13.2-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I found syslog-ng in unstartable state, presumably after a routine
upgrade. To get a reproducible situation, I purged all syslog-ng*
packages, then installed syslog-ng with its default dependencies.

The installation fails at configuration of syslog-ng-core, referring to
an unparsable configuration file:
[....] Starting system logging: syslog-ng[2018-03-17T15:37:58.614183] Error in discover process, exit code is not zero; exit_code='0', status='7'
Error parsing config, root plugin application not found in /usr/share/syslog-ng/include/scl/cim/adapter.conf at line 24, column 1:
                                             included from /etc/syslog-ng/scl.conf line 29, column 1
                                             included from /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf line 3, column 1

application cim[syslog] {
^^^^^^^^^^^

syslog-ng documentation: https://www.balabit.com/support/documentation?product=syslog-ng-ose
contact: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng

I'm not able to start the syslog-ng service on this machine.

Obviously, I expected the package install to succeed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages syslog-ng-core depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.27-2
ii  libcap2                1:2.25-1.2
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.54.3-2
ii  libivykis0             0.42.2-1
ii  libnet1                1.1.6+dfsg-3.1
ii  libpcre3               2:8.39-9
ii  libssl1.1              1.1.0g-2
ii  libsystemd0            238-2
ii  libwrap0               7.6.q-27
ii  lsb-base               9.20170808
ii  syslog-ng-mod-journal  3.13.2-4
ii  util-linux             2.31.1-0.4

Versions of packages syslog-ng-core recommends:
ii  logrotate  3.11.0-0.1

Versions of packages syslog-ng-core suggests:
iu  syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data  3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-amqp                 3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-extra                3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-geoip                3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-getent               3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-graphite             3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-json                 3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-map-value-pairs      3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-mongodb              3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-python               3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-redis                3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-riemann              3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-smtp                 3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-snmptrapd-parser     3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-sql                  3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-stardate             3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-stomp                3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-tag-parser           3.13.2-4
iu  syslog-ng-mod-xml-parser           3.13.2-4

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