rsyslog crashes while writing to disk queue (MsgSerialize)

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Issue

  • rsyslog dies and wont restart
  • I can only restart rsyslog on my ipa servers if i remove the contents from /etc/rsyslog.d/ and place the conf files in /etc/rsyslog.d
  • I suspect there is a problem with to much logging from named

    # systemctl status rsyslog.service 
    rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled)
       Active: failed (Result: signal) since Tue 2015-10-13 15:20:00 CEST; 58min ago
      Process: 45064 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS (code=killed, signal=ABRT)
     Main PID: 45064 (code=killed, signal=ABRT)
    
    Oct 13 14:33:15 hostname.example.com systemd[1]: Started System Logging Service.
    Oct 13 15:20:00 hostname.example.com systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
    Oct 13 15:20:00 hostname.example.com systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.
    # systemctl restart rsyslog.service 
    # systemctl status rsyslog.service 
    rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled)
       Active: failed (Result: signal) since Tue 2015-10-13 16:18:24 CEST; 3s ago
      Process: 46681 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n $SYSLOGD_OPTIONS (code=killed, signal=SEGV)
     Main PID: 46681 (code=killed, signal=SEGV)
    
    Oct 13 16:18:24 hostname.example.com systemd[1]: Started System Logging Service.
    Oct 13 16:18:24 hostname.example.com systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
    Oct 13 16:18:24 hostname.example.com systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1
  • rsyslog-7.4.7-7.el7_0

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