Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 866278
journalctl: Failed to iterate through journal: Bad message
Last modified: 2013-08-01 07:25:59 EDT
Description of problem: journalctl prints log messages just fine, but if I try to filter the output in some way, I get this output: #> journalctl _COMM=setroubleshootd Logs begin at Sun, 27 May 2012 14:09:45 -0700, end at Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:52:17 -0700. Failed to iterate through journal: Bad message It makes no difference how I try filtering the message; some apparent corruption on 25 Sep prevents it from working. Here is the only message on Septermber 25 courtesy of journalctl --no-pager -o verbose: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:52:17 -0700 [s=c54ec7782b8e4d49a4c8b531a1cae7e2;i=365d3;b=8087e23ce0d448e095004338f3770e04;m=2c9de9dd;t=4ca954372a69a;x=a9f4251302ffd007;p=user-42.journal] _TRANSPORT=syslog PRIORITY=4 SYSLOG_FACILITY=3 SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=gnome-session SYSLOG_PID=23978 MESSAGE=Gdk-WARNING: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. _PID=23978 _UID=42 _GID=42 _COMM=gnome-session _AUDIT_SESSION=4 _AUDIT_LOGINUID=42 _SYSTEMD_CGROUP=/ _SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=1348642337327660 _BOOT_ID=8087e23ce0d448e095004338f3770e04 _MACHINE_ID=078876cef50d4990b5a2ca08fb419951 _HOSTNAME=galactica #### This doesn't look any different from any of the messages that precede or follow it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-44-17.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. You probably won't be able to reproduce it on your system unless you can intentionally corrupt the logs somehow 2. 3. Additional info: This is the only other possibly related bug I could find while googling: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779449
I'm not sure how to debug this further or what I can do to help; just let me know what you need and I will try my best
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