Am Dienstag, 30. März 2010 09:22:15 schrieb Togan Muftuoglu:
Anton Aylward wrote:
I went through the logs in detail as the change to rsyslog occurred some months after the upgrade to 11.2. Everything was fine until this last week. The culprit machine is a laptop and it sees a laptop-related package had a dependency. Still tracing though the awful grammar of the zypper logs! Is there a tool to help with that?
Did you update the kernel during the last week and if so did the problem begin after the update. In my case after the update and reboot rsyslog appeared and my best friend syslog-ng disappeared.
/etc/sysconfig/syslogd was in my case empty SYSLOG_DAEMON=""
This happens when you deinstall an active syslog daemon; see also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592192#c3 ## post uninstall ########################################### [...] # reset SYSLOG_DAEMON variable if test -f etc/sysconfig/syslog ; then source etc/sysconfig/syslog if test "$SYSLOG_DAEMON" == "syslog-ng" ; then sed -i -e 's/^SYSLOG_DAEMON=.*/SYSLOG_DAEMON=""/g' \ etc/sysconfig/syslog fi fi That it, when SYSLOG_DAEMON=syslog-ng and you call rpm -e syslog-ng, it will remove itself and reset the variable. What happens next is to: - The /etc/init.d/syslog script will start an another available one. - The next installed one will take over / register itself as system log daemon. When this is rsyslogd, your system log daemon changes. On upgrade/ update, no "rpm -e $package" should be done, but always a "rpm -U $package.rpm". Gruesse / Regards, Marius Tomaschewski <mt@suse.de> <mt@novell.com> -- Server Technologies Team, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg; GF: Markus Rex; HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GPG/PGP public key fingerprint: DF17 271A AD15 006A 5BB9 6C96 CA2F F3F7 373A 1CC0 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org