Debian bug report logs - #835, boring messages

Subject: Bug#835: syslogd dies, leaves system unfixable
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package: sysklogd
version: 1.2-9

My SLIP connection is prone to be disconnected.  When this happens, the
SLIP driver starts generating large numbers of error messages of the
form (not exact, I don't have a logfile handy)

SLIP: sl0: transmit timed out: bad line quality?

After a few thousand of these (I have a ping -i 60 running to keep my
connection alive, and it keeps on ticking after the connection goes bad)
syslogd stops accepting connections.

This is a Bad Thing, since any logins or su's hang up since they can't
connect to syslogd.   If I don't have a root window open on the machine,
the only solution is to ctrl-alt-del, and even that doesn't work quite
right (I have to repeatedly ctrl-alt-del to get through the steps of the
shutdown process).

Bill Gribble

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: grib@arlut.utexas.edu (William Gribble)
Subject: Bug#835: Acknowledgement (was: syslogd dies, leaves system unfixable)
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