Description of problem: Somehow (system crash?) I got a corrupt systemd journal file: $ journalctl --verify [...] 6a9e68: invalid entry item (22/23 offset: 000000 41% Invalid object contents at 6a9e68: Bad message File corruption detected at /var/log/journal/6accf4e4164047c0815d5852d6dcd012/system~:6a9e68 (of 8388608 bytes, 83%). FAIL: /var/log/journal/6accf4e4164047c0815d5852d6dcd012/system~ (Bad message) [...] Now if I run: $ journalctl -- Logs begin at Sun 2014-10-12 01:36:11 EDT, end at Mon 2014-10-27 01:18:07 EDT. -- [...] Oct 18 14:36:31 fedora-20-x64 sysctl[2542]: fs.nfs.nlm_tcpport = 0 Oct 18 14:36:31 fedora-20-x64 sysctl[2542]: fs.nfs.nlm_udpport = 0 The output ends there (presumably at the time of the corruption) with no error message, even though there are more recent uncorrupted journal files. If I limit journalctl to those files with --file, I can view their content. This was pretty confusing. (This is a Qubes VM, but it uses the unmodified Fedora systemd RPM, so I presume the problem is there.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-208-22.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: Always with my corrupt journal file. I can send the actual file if necessary. I'm not sure I can reproduce the circumstances that caused the corruption. Steps to Reproduce: 1. journalctl Actual results: Output is truncated with no error message. Expected results: An error message is displayed, and content of newer uncorrupted files is shown.
I see similar truncation. Checked for corruption (due to this bug) , found this [attempting to collect logs for another unreleated bug] Linux real.home 3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 15 13:06:51 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (system has been updated to 3.16.6-203.fc20.x86_64, but that is failing , so booted back to here) [root@real Desktop]# journalctl --verify ^[[?25hInvalid tail monotonic timestamp File corruption detected at /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-1000@d456920747094ea4b2e099df196c3b30-000000000000061b-0004f8\ a97ceaa935.journal:000000 (of 16777216 bytes, 0%). FAIL: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-1000 (Ba\ d message) ^[[?25hInvalid tail monotonic timestamp File corruption detected at /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-42@99e272974111478182616258b68c8294-0000000000000574-0004fc57\ be93a00d.journal:000000 (of 8388608 bytes, 0%). FAIL: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-42 (Bad \ message) PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-1000.journal PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~ PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-42~ PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-42.journal PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system.journal PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-42 PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-1000~ ^[[?25hInvalid tail monotonic timestamp File corruption detected at /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-42@99e272974111478182616258b68c8294-0000000000015cef-0004ffd3\ 967a9ceb.journal:000000 (of 8388608 bytes, 0%). FAIL: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-42 (Bad \ message) PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-1001.journal PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~ PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-42~ PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-1000 PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system ^[[?25h220feb8: invalid entry item (17/23 offset: 000000 ^[[?25h220feb8: invalid entry item (17/23 offset: 000000 Invalid object contents at 220feb8: Bad message File corruption detected at /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~:220feb8 (of 4194\ 3040 bytes, 85%). FAIL: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~ (Bad message) PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-42 PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~ PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-992.journal PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~ ^[[?25hInvalid object at 2cad1c8 File corruption detected at /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~:2cad1c8 (of 5033\ 1648 bytes, 93%). FAIL: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~ (Bad message) ^[[?25hInvalid tail monotonic timestamp File corruption detected at /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-1000@d456920747094ea4b2e099df196c3b30-00000000000158d2-0004ff\ d219ad9e93.journal:000000 (of 8388608 bytes, 0%). FAIL: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-1000 (Ba\ d message) PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~ PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/user-99.journal PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~ PASS: /var/log/journal/5934b9ce7f98409aaa2f20ef0688f39e/system~ [root@real Desktop]#
There were changes to this part of code in systemd-208-25 and -26. If you could test with -26 (currently in updates-testing). Thanks.
(In reply to Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek from comment #2) > There were changes to this part of code in systemd-208-25 and -26. If you > could test with -26 (currently in updates-testing). Thanks. Same problem with systemd-208-26.fc20.x86_64.
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