Bug#781604: `journalctl /dev/sda` shows empty log

[Michael Biebl]

Am 31.03.2015 um 16:34 schrieb Chris Bainbridge:
>>
>> Are you running the command as root?
> 
> Yes. The error if you run journalctl as a regular user is different:
> "No journal files were found." Whereas this just shows an empty log.
> 
> This will potentially break any scripts or monitoring tools that query
> device information using this format, and people will expect
> `journalctl /dev/...` to work since it is the basic method of querying
> device logs in systemd.

Please try it with the latest upstream version, i.e. v219 from
experimental. If the problem is still reproducible, please file a bug
upstream.

Thanks,
Michael


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