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I'm having trouble upgrading rsyslog on a Debian server.

root@trip:/home# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up rsyslog (8.4.2-1+deb8u2) ...
Job for rsyslog.service failed. See 'systemctl status rsyslog.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript rsyslog, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package rsyslog (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 rsyslog
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Output of systemctl status rsyslog.service:

â rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Mon 2016-01-25 09:54:17 CET; 3min 43s ago
     Docs: man:rsyslogd(8)
           http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/
  Process: 27385 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 27385 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jan 25 09:54:16 trip systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.
Jan 25 09:54:16 trip systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: rsyslog.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: rsyslog.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.

Output of journalctl -xn:

-- Logs begin at Sun 2016-01-24 18:29:42 CET, end at Mon 2016-01-25 09:54:17 CET. --
Jan 25 09:54:16 trip systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.
Jan 25 09:54:16 trip systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 25 09:54:16 trip systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.
-- Subject: Unit rsyslog.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit rsyslog.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Jan 25 09:54:16 trip systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: rsyslog.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.
-- Subject: Unit rsyslog.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit rsyslog.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: rsyslog.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.
-- Subject: Unit rsyslog.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit rsyslog.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Jan 25 09:54:17 trip systemd[1]: Unit syslog.socket entered failed state.

I've removed rsyslog and then tried to reinstall it, but that didn't help. And apt-get -f install throws the same error as apt-get upgrade. So now I seem to be stuck with a half-configured rsyslog. How can I fix this?

Edit: the output of systemctl status syslog.service:

â rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Mon 2016-01-25 11:14:36 CET; 3min 49s ago
     Docs: man:rsyslogd(8)
           http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/
  Process: 31319 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 31319 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jan 25 11:14:36 trip systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.
Jan 25 11:14:36 trip systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.
Jan 25 11:14:36 trip systemd[1]: rsyslog.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Jan 25 11:14:36 trip systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.
Jan 25 11:14:36 trip systemd[1]: Unit rsyslog.service entered failed state.
Jan 25 11:14:36 trip systemd[1]: rsyslog.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Jan 25 11:14:36 trip systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logging Service.
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  • Could you show the output of systemctl status syslog.service?
    – gxx
    Jan 25, 2016 at 9:42
  • @RonaldPK, give it a try: apt-get -f install
    – Diamond
    Jan 25, 2016 at 9:50
  • I've updated the question with answers to gf_ and bangal. apt-get -f install throws the same error.
    – RonaldPK
    Jan 25, 2016 at 10:24
  • Could you do: systemctl disable syslog.service, systemctl enable syslog.service, systemctl restart syslog.service, systemctl restart rsyslog.service. After this, check if rsyslog.service now works.
    – gxx
    Jan 25, 2016 at 10:37
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    Today I had the same problem like yours @RonaldPK . I fixed by ps axu|grep rsyslog - I saw that I had already running rsyslog, so I kill it and do apt-get -f install and all went fine.
    – Nikolay Nikolov
    Jan 25, 2016 at 11:01

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Today I had the same problem like yours @RonaldPK . I fixed by ps axu|grep rsyslog - I saw that I had already running rsyslog, so I kill it and do apt-get -f install and all went fine.

I hope this helps you.

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Stop the rsyslog first

 sudo service rsyslog stop
 sudo systemctl stop rsyslog.service
 sudo systemctl disable rsyslog.service

Then Try:

 sudo apt-get -f install
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