Bug#764557: systemd: journalctl just hangs

[Nikolaus Rath]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-5+b1
Severity: normal

Hello,

On this system, journalctl simply hangs. I tried running journalctl,
journalctl -b, and journalctl --list-boots, but nothing seems to do
anything:


# strace -o log journalctl --list-boots
^C

# tail log
open("/var/log/journal/b865c77cc176b5ef3b69390a0000000d/system at 00050015e4e89ee2-7772b44515f976b3.journal~", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 24
fstat(24, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=8388608, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 24, 0) = 0x7f36cf8fa000
mmap(NULL, 8388608, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 24, 0) = 0x7f36c4092000
fstatfs(24, {f_type=0x9123683e, f_bsize=4096, f_blocks=10125312, f_bfree=4197815, f_bavail=2391939, f_files=0, f_ffree=0, f_fsid={2146103056, 892494683}, f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096}) = 0
open("/var/log/journal/b865c77cc176b5ef3b69390a0000000d/system at 00050026436d41e7-97988bddae2f5f40.journal~", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 25
fstat(25, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=8388608, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 25, 0) = 0x7f36cf8f9000
--- SIGINT {si_signo=SIGINT, si_code=SI_KERNEL} ---
+++ killed by SIGINT +++


There is no significant CPU activity either.

-- Package-specific info:

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

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl             2.2.52-2
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-53.4
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1
ii  libblkid1       2.20.1-5.11
ii  libc6           2.19-11
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-6
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-6
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-1
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.2-3
ii  libkmod2        18-3
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-5+b1
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-53.4
ii  udev            215-5+b1
ii  util-linux      2.20.1-5.11

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.8-1+b1
ii  libpam-systemd  215-5+b1

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

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