Bug#897266: systemd: journalctl assertion failure

[Marc Lehmann]

Package: systemd
Version: 232-25+deb9u2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I tried to see cron messages using:

   journalctl -fu cron

but journalctl aborted with an assertion failure:

   Assertion 'p > 0' failed at ../src/journal/journal-file.c:2280, function test_object_offset(). Aborting.
   Aborted
   [Exit 134 (SIGABRT)]

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.37-041437-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.115
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-3+b1
ii  libapparmor1    2.11.0-3+deb9u2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.6.7-2
ii  libblkid1       2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii  libc6           2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libcap2         1:2.25-1
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.7.3-4
ii  libgcrypt20     1.7.6-2+deb9u2
ii  libgpg-error0   1.26-2
ii  libidn11        1.33-1
ii  libip4tc0       1.6.0+snapshot20161117-6
ii  libkmod2        23-2
ii  liblz4-1        0.0~r131-2+b1
ii  liblzma5        5.2.2-1.2+b1
ii  libmount1       2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.6
ii  libseccomp2     2.3.1-2.1
ii  libselinux1     2.6-3+b3
ii  libsystemd0     232-25+deb9u2
ii  mount           2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii  procps          2:3.3.12-3
ii  util-linux      2.29.2-1+deb9u1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.10.26-0+deb9u1
ii  libpam-systemd  232-25+deb9u2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-18
pn  systemd-container  <none>
ii  systemd-ui         3-4+b1

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.130
ii  udev             232-25+deb9u2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed:
[Login]
UserTasksMax=50%


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