Bug 1249752

Summary:	imjournal stops logging due to corrupt state file
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke.floss>
Component:	rsyslog	Assignee:	Jiří Vymazal <jvymazal>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	hartsjc, jlieskov, jvymazal, lkundrak, mah.darade, pvrabec, redhat-bugzilla
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Description Matthew Woehlke 2015-08-03 17:29:33 UTC

I'm seeing this in /var/log/messages:

  Jun 19 14:30:51 gryphon rsyslogd-2027: imjournal: fscanf on state file
`/var/lib/rsyslog/imjournal.state' failed  [v8.8.0 try
http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2027 ]

...and seem to be getting no other logging. IMO the system should be more robust against the file being corrupt or (as in my case) empty.

(See also not-entirely-related bug #1088021.)

I've been having problems with the machine (can't log in, likes to stop responding) that have been causing me to do hard power cycles quite often. It may be that this is what causes the corruption.

(Note: From second/third-hand accounts, this may be fixed already upstream and just needs a new package built and/or is waiting on a new upstream release.)

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 17:20:12 UTC

Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 05:08:01 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.

Comment 4 Jiří Vymazal 2016-12-23 12:42:01 UTC

fixed by new version in rawhide, corrupting/deleting /var/lib/rsyslog/imjournal.state does no longer produce any errors in /var/log/messages

closing