Re: Debian Testing Jess: Server Randomly Reboots - No Logs / Indication - Rsyslog Issue?

[Adam Brenner <adam@aeb.io>]

On 06/04/2014 11:07 PM, Adam Brenner wrote:
> Howdy List,
> 
> I am a recent "convert" from the RHEL/CentOS community and I am running
> a server of Debian Testing "Jess." I am running the latest 3.14.4-1
> kernel and apt-get update && apt-get upgrade have no pending installs.
> 
> The issue I am facing is that at random, unrepeatable times, the server
> locks up and requires a reboot. However, none of the system generated
> logs in /var/logs/ report any kernel panic or memory dump. I have ran a
> number of grep commands and even manually spent time tracing the logs at
> the time of day and nothing shows up. I ended up performing a chassis
> swap (replaced motherboard, CPU, memory, PSU, etc). Yet, this still occurs.
> 
> This leads me to believe that the Rsyslog is not accurately logging
> messages. I am running the default provided rsyslog.conf file that was
> provided. The necessary lines are listed below:
> 
>   58 #
>   59 # First some standard log files.  Log by facility.
>   60 #
>   61 auth,authpriv.*                 /var/log/auth.log
>   62 *.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/syslog
>   63 cron.*                          /var/log/cron.log
>   64 daemon.*                        -/var/log/daemon.log
>   65 kern.*                          -/var/log/kern.log
>   66 lpr.*                           -/var/log/lpr.log
>   67 mail.*                          -/var/log/mail.log
>   68 user.*                          -/var/log/user.log
> 
> Is it the "delayed" logging "dashes" a cause of the no logs?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Adam
> 

Anyone have ideas about this?

Thanks,
-Adam

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Adam Brenner <adam@aeb.io>