I've reproduced the bug with the instructions from the bug summary on precise using python 2.7.3-0ubuntu3.5 and confirmed the issue is fixed once python was upgraded to 2.7.3-0ubuntu3.6
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to python2.7 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1081022 Title: logging.SysLogHandler doesn't close UNIX socket when connection failed Status in python2.7 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in python2.7 source package in Precise: Fix Committed Bug description: [Impact] Restarting rsyslog causing logging from python based daemons to lockup. [Test Case] sudo apt-get install python-eventlet == run this script script #!/usr/bin/env python import eventlet from logging.handlers import SysLogHandler import time import logging eventlet.patcher.monkey_patch(all=False, socket=True) logger = logging.getLogger('log') logger.addHandler(SysLogHandler('/dev/log')) while True: print "send a message to logger" logger.error("syslog test") time.sleep(1) == sudo service rsyslog stop sudo service rsyslog start ("send a message to logger" log messages will just stop) [Regression Potential] The proposed fix is in all py2.7 versions > 12.04 right now and is not causing problems. [Original Bug Report] Python logging SysLogHandler to log into SysLog doesn't close UNIX-socket when connection failed. This bug is solved on the Python Issue Tracker at http://bugs.python.org/issue15179 and affects python package with version 2.7.3-0ubuntu2 at Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.7/+bug/1081022/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
