[Bug 459730] Re: rsyslog doesn't create /dev/xconsole

[scw]

On a box upgraded from 10.10 -> 11.04 -> 11.10, I also have this
problem, and it causes my machine to crash -- I have multiple entries in
my syslog in which this is the last message before my system crashes:


Feb  3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.1" x-pid="546" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start
Feb  3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103
Feb  3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
Feb  3 23:21:26 grickle-grass rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
Feb  3 23:21:26 grickle-grass kernel: [    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset

This was causing my machine to crash one or more times a day. I've
commented out the relevant block in the /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf
and things seem to be OK, but this would be a great bug to quash
directly.

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Title:
  rsyslog doesn't create /dev/xconsole

Status in “rsyslog” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: rsyslog

  Looks like this was missed in the move to upstart.

  This function was called in init.d/rsyslog start:

  create_xconsole() {
          if [ ! -e /dev/xconsole ]
          then
                  mknod -m 640 /dev/xconsole p
                  chown root:adm /dev/xconsole
                  [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon /dev/xconsole
          fi
  }

  I can't find any reference to it now. If this is old school then it should be re
  moved from the config.

  rsyslog:
    Installed: 4.2.0-2ubuntu5

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