Bug 2178393

Summary:	The command `journalctl --flush` hang since systemd version "239-73.el8"
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Yongcheng Yang <yoyang>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Frantisek Sumsal <fsumsal>
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Version:	8.8	CC:	dtardon, systemd-maint-list, xzhou
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Description Yongcheng Yang 2023-03-15 04:10:50 UTC

Description of problem:
I'm not sure if this is expected but it's a new behavior in rhel8:

# Now
[root@ci-vm-10-0-137-121 ~]# rpm -q systemd
systemd-239-73.el8.x86_64
[root@ci-vm-10-0-137-121 ~]# journalctl --flush
^C
^^^^^ don't return
[root@ci-vm-10-0-137-121 ~]# rpm -qf `which journalctl`
systemd-239-73.el8.x86_64

# Before
[root@ci-vm-10-0-138-156 ~]# rpm -q systemd
systemd-239-72.el8.x86_64
[root@ci-vm-10-0-138-156 ~]# journalctl --flush
[root@ci-vm-10-0-138-156 ~]#


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
since systemd-239-73.el8

How reproducible:
always easy

Steps to Reproduce:
1. journalctl --flush
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Expected results:


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Comment 1 David Tardon 2023-03-15 07:28:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2174645 ***