Bug 1211972

Summary: journalctl --reverse from systemd 208 is broken
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Marius Vollmer <mvollmer>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Frantisek Sumsal <fsumsal>
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Version: 7.1CC: fsumsal, jscotka, lnykryn, systemd-maint-list
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Fixed In Version: systemd-219-1.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-11-19 15:00:30 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Marius Vollmer 2015-04-15 10:30:11 UTC
Created attachment 1014669 [details]
journal files that trigger the bug

[ This is mostly for tracking. This is fixed in systemd 216 and maybe earlier. ]

Version 208 from RHEL 7.1:

# journalctl -D check-journal-testBasic-10.111.111.10-FAIL.journal/ SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=check-journal "PRIORITY=0" "PRIORITY=1" "PRIORITY=2" "PRIORITY=3"
-- Logs begin at Wed 2015-04-15 10:01:03 UTC, end at Sat 2050-01-01 11:01:58 UTC. --
Jan 01 11:00:12 m10 check-journal[2311]: BEFORE BOOT
-- Reboot --
Jan 01 11:00:47 m10 check-journal[2172]: AFTER BOOT

# journalctl -D check-journal-testBasic-10.111.111.10-FAIL.journal/ --reverse SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=check-journal "PRIORITY=0" "PRIORITY=1" "PRIORITY=2" "PRIORITY=3"
-- Logs begin at Wed 2015-04-15 10:01:03 UTC, end at Sat 2050-01-01 11:01:58 UTC. --
<empty>

Version 216 from Fedora 22:

# journalctl -D check-journal-testBasic-10.111.111.10-FAIL.journal/ SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=check-journal "PRIORITY=0" "PRIORITY=1" "PRIORITY=2" "PRIORITY=3"
-- Logs begin at Wed 2015-04-15 13:01:03 EEST, end at Sat 2050-01-01 13:01:58 EET. --
Jan 01 13:00:12 m10 check-journal[2311]: BEFORE BOOT
-- Reboot --
Jan 01 13:00:47 m10 check-journal[2172]: AFTER BOOT

# journalctl -D check-journal-testBasic-10.111.111.10-FAIL.journal/ --reverse SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=check-journal "PRIORITY=0" "PRIORITY=1" "PRIORITY=2" "PRIORITY=3"
-- Logs begin at Wed 2015-04-15 13:01:03 EEST, end at Sat 2050-01-01 13:01:58 EET. --
Jan 01 13:00:47 m10 check-journal[2172]: AFTER BOOT
-- Reboot --
Jan 01 13:00:12 m10 check-journal[2311]: BEFORE BOOT

Comment 1 Marius Vollmer 2015-04-15 10:31:06 UTC
Maybe relevant: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84867

Comment 3 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-04-21 13:51:03 UTC
This should be now fixed with the rebase.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 15:00:30 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2092.html