Problems with syslogd under 5.2-RELEASE

[Bernd Walter]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:36:43AM +0000, David Malone wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:30:40AM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > If I kill and restart syslogd by hand I get:
> > 
> >     # /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
> >     syslogd: timed out waiting for child
> > 
> > Is this a known problem?  Is there a workaround?
> 
> Is your console in some wird state? (XOFF, scroll-lock-on, ...)
> 
> There have been reports of problems like this before, but they've
> been hard to pin point.

I always see this on systems at boot with lots off dmesg info and
slow logging disk.

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