Bug#777735: systemd: Disk corruption on reboot initiated through systemd

[Peter Colberg]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 05:44:59AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Fwiw, I pulled the debian_wheezy_amd64_desktop.qcow2 qemu-kvm image from
> [1], started it with "qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -hda
> debian_wheezy_amd64_standard.qcow2".
> Then did a dist-upgrade to jessie, which replaced sysvinit with
> systemd-sysv as default.
> Did a couple of reboots and couldn't find any corruption in any of the
> rsyslog managed log files.

Good idea! I did the same and then started the VM with

qemu-system-x86_64 -curses -enable-kvm -device i6300esb -watchdog-action reset -hda debian_wheezy_amd64_standard.qcow2

A reboot triggers corruption in /var/log/syslog with a hole of nils.