[FC3] Syslog issue

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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:
> I've installed FC3 with XFS on an old AMD K6 with 284 MB RAM and an 80 GB
> Seagate HDD. During the install, the installer froze when configuring GRUB.
> It pegged the CPU at 99% for several hours before I gave up and rebooted the
> system from the command line. The system did boot up OK, but syslog doesn't
> seem to be running.

That's a grub bug where it attempts to write directly to the block device
instead of the filesystem layer.  This only happens with XFS.  The only
known workaround is to make /boot something other than XFS.  I believe i
read about a way of killing the hung process from the installer virtual
console, and then manually writing grub to the MBR.  It worked for me
once, but not other times.

> All error messages are being displayed on the Console and nothing gets
> written to /var/log/messages.
>
> When I execute:
> # service syslog restart
> Shutting down kernel logger:                               [  OK  ]
> Shutting down system logger:                               [FAILED]
> Starting system logger: syslogd: error while loading shared libraries:
> libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied
>                                                             [FAILED]
> Starting kernel logger:                                    [  OK  ]
>
> # ll /lib/libc.so.6
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 13 Nov  7 20:07 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.3.so
> # ll /lib/libc-2.3.3.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1402592 Oct 27 18:45 /lib/libc-2.3.3.so
>
> Doesn't seem to be a unix permissions issue.
>
> Any ideas? Could this be some sort of SELinux permission thing?

maybe.  which policy did you select?

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