Bug#522162: syslog-ng: crashes on segmentation fault - solved

I investigated this problem, running gdb syslog showed that syslog-ng crashed in g_static_private_set from glib I first tried to rebuild syslog-ng from source to get debugging symbols, but pkgconfig crashed with the same error. This made me really suspect glib and indeed after upgrading to glib

Bug#522162: syslog-ng: crashes on segmentation fault

Package: syslog-ng Version: 2.0.9-4.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start doesn't start syslog-ng then as debug, here is the output : $ syslog-ng -dveF syslog-ng starting up; version='2.0.9' Segmentation fault Time it takes to crash can vary.