[systemd-devel] System stability when journald locks up

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 29.05.12 22:29, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:

> On Mon, 28.05.12 20:33, Marti Raudsepp (marti at juffo.org) wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > Long story short, I believe there are two problems with journald:
> > 1) journald gets stuck in an infinte loop, trying to send the message
> > "Dropping message, as we can't find a place to store the data" to
> > somewhere -- occurs in v44 and v183 (Arch Linux)
> 
> Hmm, that message should go to kmsg. Are you saying for you kmsg gets
> looped back to the journal and we don't detect that properly. I am
> pretty sure I made sure that didn't happen. I guess I need to have
> another look at this.

OK, there indeed was a loop here, where we ended up processing messages
we ourselves wrote to kmsg. I have fixed that now in git. Could you test
please if this solves your problems?

Lennart

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