Description of problem:
systemd provides the systemd-pstore service to manage oopses, dmesgs, and UEFI/ACPI messages written to ACPI/UEFI persistent storage area. Since that storage area is very small (10s of KiB), systemd-pstore is supposed to run on a successful boot, copy any data in the pstore to larger and longer term storage such as a disk drive, and clear the pstore for future use.
On RHEL-8, although there is an /etc/systemd/pstore.conf, the service does not seem to exist:
$ sudo systemctl status systemd-pstore
Unit systemd-pstore.service could not be found.
On Fedora 35, the services exists but is normally inactive:
$ sudo systemctl status systemd-pstore
○ systemd-pstore.service - Platform Persistent Storage Archival
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pstore.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Fri 2023-01-06 04:43:07 CST; 7h ago
Docs: man:systemd-pstore(8)
Jan 06 04:43:07 redhatnow systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Platform Persistent Storage Archival being skipped.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-239.68.el8
How reproducible:
$ sudo systemctl status systemd-pstore
Actual results:
Unit systemd-pstore.service could not be found.
Expected results:
○ systemd-pstore.service - Platform Persistent Storage Archival
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pstore.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
> On RHEL-8, although there is an /etc/systemd/pstore.conf, the service does not seem to exist:
It doesn't. It was introduced in systemd 243. But it should be easy to backport.
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 (systemd bug fix and enhancement update), 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:2985
Description of problem: systemd provides the systemd-pstore service to manage oopses, dmesgs, and UEFI/ACPI messages written to ACPI/UEFI persistent storage area. Since that storage area is very small (10s of KiB), systemd-pstore is supposed to run on a successful boot, copy any data in the pstore to larger and longer term storage such as a disk drive, and clear the pstore for future use. On RHEL-8, although there is an /etc/systemd/pstore.conf, the service does not seem to exist: $ sudo systemctl status systemd-pstore Unit systemd-pstore.service could not be found. On Fedora 35, the services exists but is normally inactive: $ sudo systemctl status systemd-pstore ○ systemd-pstore.service - Platform Persistent Storage Archival Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pstore.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) Condition: start condition failed at Fri 2023-01-06 04:43:07 CST; 7h ago Docs: man:systemd-pstore(8) Jan 06 04:43:07 redhatnow systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Platform Persistent Storage Archival being skipped. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-239.68.el8 How reproducible: $ sudo systemctl status systemd-pstore Actual results: Unit systemd-pstore.service could not be found. Expected results: ○ systemd-pstore.service - Platform Persistent Storage Archival Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-pstore.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)