[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#741045: starting journalctl -f near boot caused a torrent of logs

[Joey Hess]

Package: systemd
Version: 204-7
Severity: normal
File: /bin/journalctl

I started journalctl -f just after boot, and expected to see the usual
tail of the log. However I instead got such a torrent of log messages
that it was still going a minute later when I stopped it. At that point,
running journalctl -f again resulted in the expected tail -f behavior.

Looking over the scrollback, it included multiple repeats of the kernel's
boot messages and more. Identical lines. So it was looping,
displaying messages repeatedly.

It may be relevant that the system was booting up after a crash.

It may be releavant that I have enabled persistent journal storage in /var
and have 20 mb of journal there.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (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-51
ii  libacl1              2.2.52-1
ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.4-1
ii  libc6                2.18-4
ii  libcap2              1:2.22-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup4       2:1.6.4-4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.0-2
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.3-3
ii  libkmod2             16-2
ii  liblzma5             5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g             1.1.8-2
ii  libselinux1          2.2.2-1
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   204-7
ii  libsystemd-journal0  204-7
ii  libsystemd-login0    204-7
ii  libudev1             204-7
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-25
ii  udev                 204-7
ii  util-linux           2.20.1-5.6

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  libpam-systemd  204-7

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

-- 
see shy jo
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