Bug#805042: journal is killed every minute by watchdog

[Michael Biebl]

Package: systemd
Version: 227-3
Severity: important

Since updating to 227-3, I get the following message every minute

Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd-journald[25893]: System journal (/var/log/journal/) is currently using 808.1M.
                                               Maximum allowed usage is set to 1.0G.
                                               Leaving at least 4.0G free (of currently available 7.0G of space).
                                               Enforced usage limit is thus 1.0G, of which 215.8M are still available.
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd-journald[25893]: Journal started
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: Service has no hold-off time, scheduling restart.
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: Stopped Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: Stopping Flush Journal to Persistent Storage...
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: Stopped Journal Service.
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: Watchdog timeout (limit 1min)!
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage...
Nov 13 18:23:28 pluto systemd[1]: Started Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.


I've enabled persistent journal, i.e. I have a /var/log/journal
directory.

Might be an incomplete fix for #1505 and maybe we need something like
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1804


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libapparmor1    2.10-2+b1
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4.4-4
ii  libblkid1       2.27.1-1
ii  libc6           2.19-22
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-12
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-12
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.4-3
ii  libkmod2        21-1
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii  libmount1       2.27.1-1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libseccomp2     2.2.3-2
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2+b1
ii  libsystemd0     227-2
ii  mount           2.27.1-1
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-59.2
ii  util-linux      2.27.1-1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.10.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd  227-2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  systemd-container  227-2
ii  systemd-ui         3-4

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
ii  udev  227-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pam.d/systemd-user changed [not included]

-- no debconf information