Bug#755062: systemd: Syslog (contents that journalctl shows) stopped working after upgrading from 204-14 to 208-6

[Axel Beckert]

Package: systemd
Version: 208-6
Severity: grave
Justification: causes data loss

Hi,

I upgraded from 204-14 to 208-6 last night and today in the morning, I
noticed that journalctl doesn't show any entries from after the
upgrade. Neither the at that time running "journalctl -f" nor a freshly
called journalctl show anything new. Just calling journalctl, it shows
all messages from boot up to when the upgrade happened.

There is no syslog daemon like e.g. rsyslog installed.

I have not yet rebooted, but I do expect that syslog must work after
upgrading systemd without having rebooted. Otherwise it would be a
severe data loss. And even if that would be the case: Either the running
"jpurnalctl -f" from 204 or the just called "journalctl" from 208 should
show something in this case.

If I can provide more information to investigate this issue, feel free
to ask. I'm though currently travelling (actually I noticed it because I
wanted to check for ppp messages in syslog) so I may lag a little bit
with regards to responses.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.15-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl                  2.2.52-1
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts          2.88dsf-53.2
ii  libacl1              2.2.52-1
ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.7-1
ii  libblkid1            2.20.1-5.8
ii  libc6                2.19-7
ii  libcap2              1:2.22-2
ii  libcap2-bin          1:2.22-2
ii  libcryptsetup4       2:1.6.4-4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.6-1
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.3-4
ii  libkmod2             18-1
ii  liblzma5             5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g             1.1.8-3
ii  libselinux1          2.3-1
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   208-6
ii  libsystemd-journal0  208-6
ii  libsystemd-login0    208-6
ii  libudev1             208-6
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-25
ii  sysv-rc              2.88dsf-53.2
ii  udev                 208-6
ii  util-linux           2.20.1-5.8

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  libpam-systemd  208-6

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  systemd-ui  3-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed:
[Login]
HandleLidSwitch=suspend


-- no debconf information