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

[Michael Biebl]

severity 755062 important
tags 755062 + moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

Am 17.07.2014 13:00, schrieb 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.

I just tested various upgrades from 204-14 (with and without persistent
journal, VM and real hardware) and was not able to reproduce the
problem. Also considering, that we still install rsyslog by default, I'm
going to lower the severity to important.





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