Bug 865091 - attempting to switch to an on-disk journal broke journaling
Summary: attempting to switch to an on-disk journal broke journaling
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: systemd
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-10 19:40 UTC by Matthew Miller
Modified: 2013-08-01 11:25 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 11:25:41 UTC
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Description Matthew Miller 2012-10-10 19:40:08 UTC
On my F17 test system, I did:

$ mkdir /var/log/journal
$ sudo systemctl restart  systemd-journald.service

And now I get this from journalctl run as root:

Logs begin at Sat, 29 Sep 2012 09:23:21 -0400, end at Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:30:59
-0400.
Failed to iterate through journal: Bad message
Sep 29 09:23:21 localhost.localdomain systemd-journal[313]: Journal started

This continues even as I add additional data to the log.

Is this the expected behavor? How can I diagnose it?

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2012-10-12 16:16:35 UTC
Hmm, probably a corrupted journal file, as a result of a non-synced disk on reboot or so. That should be mostly OK, journalctl will read it anyway as far as it can, only the incomplete end is not read.

it would be cool if you could run journalctl with the env var SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=99 set, which should give you a hint which file is borked. It would be cool if you could send that specific file to me (if it doesn't contain any sensitive data...).

Most likely we should just not print an error here...

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2012-10-12 20:56:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Hmm, probably a corrupted journal file, as a result of a non-synced disk on
> reboot or so. That should be mostly OK, journalctl will read it anyway as
> far as it can, only the incomplete end is not read.

I literally only did the things above (um, with sudo in front of the mkdir, though), with no-reboot.

It doesn't show me things before that point (even though it does know to start back in 29 Sep 2012), and new things do not seem to be added after.


I will try to recreate with a new system over the weekend, and I'll set the env var as requested.

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2012-10-17 14:21:37 UTC
Can't recreate on F18. Will try again with F17.

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