Bug 1465759 – journalctl stops working as soon as it encounters an empty journal file

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Bug 1465759 - journalctl stops working as soon as it encounters an empty journal file

Summary:	journalctl stops working as soon as it encounters an empty journal file

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	systemd (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.3
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	urgent Severity low
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Michal Sekletar
QA Contact:	Frantisek Sumsal
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Keywords:	ZStream

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Blocks:	1465901 1549474
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Reported:	2017-06-28 03:04 EDT by Yogita
Modified:	2018-04-10 07:22 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	systemd-219-48.el7
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Clones:	1549474 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed:	2018-04-10 07:21:21 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2018:0711	None	None	None	2018-04-10 07:22 EDT

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Description Yogita 2017-06-28 03:04:20 EDT

Description of problem:
journalctl stops working as soon as it encounters an empty journal file

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhel7.3
systemd-219-30.el7_3.9.x86_64.rpm

Steps to Reproduce:
1. [root@localhost ~]# touch /var/log/journal/5e7af7ffa712483db4097531bc073648/demo.journal

2.[root@localhost ~]# ls -lh /var/log/journal/5e7af7ffa712483db4097531bc073648/
total 8.1M
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root systemd-journal    0 Jun 28 03:03 demo.journal
-rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 8.0M Jun 28 03:01 system.journal

Actual results:
[root@localhost ~]# journalctl -f
Error was encountered while opening journal files: Input/output error

Expected results:
[root@localhost ~]# journalctl -f
-- Logs begin at Wed 2017-06-28 02:03:59 EDT. --
Jun 28 02:57:55 localhost.localdomain gnome-session[2631]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/subscription_manager/cert_sorter.py", line 323, in __init__
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Additional info:
Already discussed in upstreams -
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1669

Comment 2 Michal Sekletar 2017-07-03 04:20:27 EDT

We are very late in RHEL-7.4 cycle. Moving against RHEL-7.5.

Comment 9 Lukáš Nykrýn 2017-11-23 09:02:49 EST

fix merged to staging branch -> https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/pull/170 -> post

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 07:21:21 EDT

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, 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-2018:0711

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