Problem with syslog-ng looping at start

[René Berber]

Hi,

The problem happens about once week and I'm starting my PC every day (I would
estimate it fails in about 1 of 7 to 14 starts); it has been happening for some
time, at least with the last 3 versions of cygwin's dll, currently I'm using
1.5.21 and this is under Windows XP-Pro sp2.

Syslog-ng was installed as a service following the instructions in the README
and it works fine (even when it's looping), some info:

$ cygrunsrv -Q syslog-ng
Service             : syslog-ng
Display name        : CYGWIN syslog-ng
Description         : syslogd
Current State       : Running
Controls Accepted   : Stop
Command             : /usr/sbin/syslog-ng -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid

When it "loops" syslog-ng uses 100% of the CPU, and it always happens just after
reboot, before I log in the computer.  The way I notice is of course that
everything is very slow when a process is using 100% CPU.

I usually just stop (or kill) the process and restart it, and it works.  There
is a difference in my computer between stopping the service and just killing the
process because I made all the other daemons that use syslog dependent on this
service, but I think that is not relevant.

I'm attaching the last part of a strace I did and it shows how it is looping.  I
hope this can be usefull; I haven't done any other debugging of the problem.

Thanks.
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René Berber
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