Bug#763654: /bin/journalctl: journalctl --boot option doesn't work: "Cannot assign requested address"

[Nikolaus Rath]

On 10/01/2014 09:23 AM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 01.10.2014 um 17:36 schrieb Nikolaus Rath:
>> Package: systemd
>> Version: 208-8
>> Severity: normal
>> File: /bin/journalctl
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to retrieve the logs from the last book. journalctl(1) says:
>>
>>        -b [ID][±offset], --boot=[ID][±offset]
>>            Show messages from a specific boot. This will add a match for
>> "_BOOT_ID=".
>>
>>            The argument may be empty, in which case logs for the current
>> boot will be
>>            shown.
>>
>>            If the boot ID is omitted, a positive offset will look up the
>> boots starting
>>            from the beginning of the journal, and a equal-or-less-than
>> zero offset will
>>            look up boots starting from the end of the journal. Thus, 1
>> means the first
>>            boot found in the journal in the chronological order, 2 the
>> second and so
>>            on; while -0 is the last boot, -1 the boot before that, and
>> so on. An empty
>>            offset is equivalent to specifying -0, except when the
>> current boot is not
>>            the last boot (e.g. because --directory was specified to look
>> at logs from a
>>            different machine).
>>
>>
>> However,
>>
>> [0] nelarikon:~# journalctl -b -1
>> Failed to look up boot -1: Cannot assign requested address
>>
>> [1] nelarikon:~# journalctl --boot=-1
>> Failed to look up boot -1: Cannot assign requested address
>>
>>
> I do assume that you have created a /var/log/journal directory?
No, I did not. Since journalctl -xb was working out of the box, I was
assuming journalctl -b -1 would work as well. I'll setup
/var/log/journal as described in README.Debian (only looked at that now).


Best,
-Nikolaus

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