Re: [gNewSense-users] I am unable to boot from vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-libre-lemote since upgrade

[Sam Geeraerts]

Christophe Jarry wrote:
>     root      1636     1  1636  1636  0 Jul14 ?        00:00:01 runsvdir -P
> /etc/service log: ..............................................................

"apt-cache search runsv" lists socklog. According to that package's 
description it can replace syslogd. I don't know how it works or where 
it logs. If you have it installed, try removing it and reinstalling rsyslog.

> > See if the command "logger hello" adds something to the log.
>
> It does add nothing to "/var/log/messages".

Confirming again that (r)syslogd is not running.

> > Check permissions on /var/log/messages.
>
> $ ls -l /var/log/messages
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 2159938 Dec 13  2010 /var/log/messages
>
> Is it normal that "/var/log/messages" is writable only by "root"?

rsyslogd runs as root, so yes.

> > Check /etc/rsyslog.conf.
>
> I attached the file to this mail. I see nothing wrong in it, but I'm not an
> expert.

Looks much the same as on my system.