Binary package hint: rsyslog
natty i386 updated
since a week or so, several log files are not populated (/var/log/): daemon, debug, messages & user.log (they are empty)
looking at syslog, i see:
kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="933" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] exiting on signal 15.
kernel: imklog 4.6.4, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="967" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 102
rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
As rsyslog-2039 suggest a typo somewhere and complaint about /dev/xconsole, i've verified and found that : /dev/console exist but not /dev/xconsole, so that might be the problem.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: rsyslog 4.6.4-2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic-pae 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 24 08:48:55 2011
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rsyslog
i've removed/purged ALL the related apparmor packages then reinstalled apparmor, but that dont help.