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Strange logs in /log/syslog.log file

George F.Kapaniris

The system is producing this output below every second as it appears in the advanced shell, it seems that login process is restarting continuously.

 

 

Feb  3 10:01:00 (none) daemon.info init: process '/bin/login' (pid 20205) exited. Scheduling for restart.

Feb  3 10:01:00 (none) daemon.info init: starting pid 20207, tty '/dev/ttyS0': '/bin/login'

Feb  3 10:01:01 (none) daemon.info init: process '/bin/login' (pid 20207) exited. Scheduling for restart.

Feb  3 10:01:01 (none) daemon.info init: starting pid 20208, tty '/dev/ttyS0': '/bin/login'

Feb  3 10:01:02 (none) daemon.info init: process '/bin/login' (pid 20208) exited. Scheduling for restart.

Feb  3 10:01:02 (none) daemon.info init: starting pid 20210, tty '/dev/ttyS0': '/bin/login'



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    I have found why the problem occurs. There was a serial port in the bios that was disabled and for some reason XG Firewall did not like this. After the port was enabled everything worked ok and there are no more complains in /log/syslog.log file from the system

  • 0 in reply to George F.Kapaniris

    Hi all,

    I have the same problem running the newest version 16.05.3 MR-3, which was installed just one week ago as a manual software installation in a KVM.

    After I've ready jour post I've tried to add the installation CDROM drive "ide2" which I had removed after the installation back to the VM and did a reboot.

    However the problem is still there, growing my logs continuously.

    How can we investigate this problem any further?

     

    Thanks and best regards

    DomNik 

  • 0 in reply to DomNik

    Hi Domnik, 

    I have reproduced the issue by disabling the Serial connection from BIOS. As I am using Vmware, I have gone to Bios Setup by selecting the option F2 and going to I/O configuration and disabled the serial connection which is usually set to auto by default.

     

     

  • 0 in reply to Aditya Patel

    Hello Aditya,

    This bug I reported long time ago I think it is also driving the appliance to hang because of the high amount of logs; after I found the workaround the system does not hang anymore. Please fix it because many systems have the serial port working by default.

  • 0 in reply to George F.Kapaniris

    Hi George, hi Aditya,

    thank you for finding and explaining the workaround.

    First I had the virtual cdrom drive in my mind, as this was my only change to the VM after the installation.

    Later I found out that the problem exists since the very first start and googled a bit...

     

    This is the workaround for KVM respectively Proxmox:

    Logon to your hypervisor using SSH and change to the directory where the configuration files for the VMs are in:

    cd /etc/pve/qemu-server

    Add the following line to your <id>.conf file of the VM:

    serial0: /dev/ttyS0

    Stop and Start the VM and recheck the syslog. (I don't know if a reboot is working here.)

     

    However the serial port forwarding seems to be experimental in Proxmox, so a fix for the original problem would be nice. :-)

     

    Best Regards

    Dom Nik

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  • 0 in reply to George F.Kapaniris

    Hi George, hi Aditya,

    thank you for finding and explaining the workaround.

    First I had the virtual cdrom drive in my mind, as this was my only change to the VM after the installation.

    Later I found out that the problem exists since the very first start and googled a bit...

     

    This is the workaround for KVM respectively Proxmox:

    Logon to your hypervisor using SSH and change to the directory where the configuration files for the VMs are in:

    cd /etc/pve/qemu-server

    Add the following line to your <id>.conf file of the VM:

    serial0: /dev/ttyS0

    Stop and Start the VM and recheck the syslog. (I don't know if a reboot is working here.)

     

    However the serial port forwarding seems to be experimental in Proxmox, so a fix for the original problem would be nice. :-)

     

    Best Regards

    Dom Nik

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