pam hangs on Authentication

The problem here seems to be that your syslog daemon has hung. What does an strace of that process show?

Steve

Thanks

I will have a closer look, maybe something to do with me using this to collecting data for Arcsight. I will switch on debugging and get abck to you

regards

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-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Steve Langasek
Sent: Friday, 10 July 2009 18:09
To: Peter Maguire (CAE Australia)
Subject: [Bug 397717] Re: pam hangs on Authentication

The problem here seems to be that your syslog daemon has hung. What
does an strace of that process show?

** Package changed: pam (Ubuntu) => sysklogd (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: sysklogd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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pam hangs on Authentication
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Status in “sysklogd” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

when attempting to su to rot on ubuntu 9.04 server 32 bit the following happens

close(3) = 0
munmap(0xb7f32000, 4096) = 0
socket(PF_FILE, 0x80002 /* SOCK_??? */, 0) = 3
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/dev/log"...}, 110) = 0
send(3, "<85>Jul 10 14:35:46 su[5802]: pam"..., 141, MSG_NOSIGNAL

and gets no further, no sign of timeout even after several hours

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test the current Ubuntu version (10.10). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #>, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

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