[Bug 1801910] Re: logrotate fails on LXC

[Phan Van Cuong]

I have met same case with you also I'm using proxmox. Should like the
image of Proxmox provided for us diffent a bit with normal OS. My laptop
using Ubuntu 18.04 but no problem with the rsyslog. It still is version
rsyslogd 8.32.0.

Rsyslog is included in all major distributions. So you do not
necessarily need to take care of where packages can be found - they are
“just there”. Unfortunately, the distros provide often rather old
versions. This is especially the case for so-called enterprise
distributions.

So to fix this, I have still newest version of rsyslog then the issue
has solved.

sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common # Provide add-apt-repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:adiscon/v8-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rsyslog

Let's run again: 
# /etc/cron.daily/logrotate

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Title:
  logrotate fails on LXC

Status in logrotate package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  daily, I receive this alert from logrotate script in cron.daily:

  /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
  Failed to kill unit rsyslog.service: Input/output error
  error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/syslog of '/var/log/syslog
  '
  run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

  My ubuntu is a LXC running on top of ProxmoxVE.

  the problem occour when logrotate script call /usr/lib/rsyslog
  /rsyslog-rotate that has this call:

  systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service

  I already checked my disks status (because the input/output error) but
  them are ok.

  The same issue is present also in another LXC, ubuntu also this one,
  running on another node of the same cluster

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: logrotate 3.11.0-0.1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature:
   
  Uname: Linux 4.15.18-7-pve x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Nov  6 10:26:37 2018
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=C
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   PATH=(custom, no user)
  SourcePackage: logrotate
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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