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

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Joey,

Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> writes:
> 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.
I think you are running into one of those two bugs:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64566
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63672

Can you still reproduce the problem? If so, can you confirm that one (or
multiple) of the referred patches in those two tickets fix the bug on
your machine? If so, which ones (and I’ll happily cherry-pick them)?

-- 
Best regards,
Michael