Bug 1295612 - journal corruption, most all kernel messages for current day are missing
Summary: journal corruption, most all kernel messages for current day are missing
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1294002
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: systemd
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-05 02:34 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2016-08-10 15:44 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-08-10 15:44:31 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
journal file --verify says is corrupt (4.27 MB, application/x-tar)
2016-01-05 02:36 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
journal others (731.18 KB, application/x-tar)
2016-01-05 02:38 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details

Description Chris Murphy 2016-01-05 02:34:32 UTC
Description of problem:

Short: Journal lacks roughly 12 hours of kernel messages in an otherwise readable journal log.


Long: Soon after a 'dnf install kernel' dmesg reports corruption in systemd journal file and that system.journal is being replaced by a new one. journalctl --verify shows no problems; btrfs can read all files (to /dev/null) without triggering any fs checksum mismatch errors.

Upon reboot, journalctl --verify lists journal corruption; still btrfs reads files to /dev/null no errors. But then I also can't find the corruption message I saw with 'dmesg | grep -i corrupt' in the previous boot. And then I see 'journal -k -b -1' shows no kernel messages for almost 12 hours, except some audit messages. For sure there were a bunch of kernel messages today, but none of them are locateable in the journal.

Could be related to bug 1294002 (same system) but manifests differently

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-222-10.fc23.x86_64

How reproducible:
unknown, some form of journal corruption is inevitable but I don't know what triggers it and manifestation of corruption is different each time; this is the first time I've noticed specifically kernel messages missing.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Uncertain
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Actual results:

Kernel messages in previous boot appear to be missing.


Expected results:

Kernel messages for prior boot should be preserved more reliably.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2016-01-05 02:36:53 UTC
Created attachment 1111647 [details]
journal file --verify says is corrupt

Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2016-01-05 02:38:02 UTC
Created attachment 1111648 [details]
journal others

These are not marked as corrupt by --verify, but go with the other log file, so this is included just to have a complete submission.

Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2016-08-10 15:44:31 UTC
Ultimately this is the same problem as bug 1294002.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1294002 ***


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