Bug#965028: systemd: journalctl does not work for normal users at all

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible

Am 14.07.20 um 18:50 schrieb Daniel Blaschke:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 241-7~deb10u4
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> $ journalctl
> Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
>       Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
>       turn off this notice.
> No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
> 
> ************
> therefore, gnome-logs is empty and does not display any logs
> This happened for the primary (=admin) user of a fresh debian 10 install
> 
> I added myself to the adm group and also to the systemd-journal group:
> $ groups daniel
> daniel : daniel adm cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev systemd-journal
> netdev bluetooth lpadmin scanner data

I can't reproduce this issue:

pi at raspberrypi ~ $ groups
pi adm dialout cdrom sudo audio video plugdev games users netdev
systemd-journal input spi gpio

pi at raspberrypi ~ $ ls -la /run/log/journal/
insgesamt 0
drwxr-sr-x  3 root systemd-journal  60 Jul  6 23:39 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root             60 Jul  6 23:39 ..
drwxr-s---+ 2 root systemd-journal 100 Jul 14 00:39
92e74c0bd699cc0d17d48ad852cc73e2

pi at raspberrypi ~ $ journalctl -f
-- Logs begin at Mon 2020-07-06 23:39:50 CEST. --
Jul 14 20:00:23 raspberrypi systemd[23434]: Reached target Sockets.
Jul 14 20:00:23 raspberrypi systemd[23434]: Reached target Paths.
Jul 14 20:00:23 raspberrypi systemd[23434]: Reached target Basic System.
Jul 14 20:00:23 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 0.
Jul 14 20:00:23 raspberrypi systemd[23434]: Reached target Default.
Jul 14 20:00:23 raspberrypi systemd[23434]: Startup finished in 796ms.
Jul 14 20:00:23 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Session c8 of user root.
Jul 14 20:00:58 raspberrypi gpasswd[23485]: user pi added by root to
group systemd-journal
Jul 14 20:01:01 raspberrypi su[23492]: (to pi) root on pts/1
Jul 14 20:01:01 raspberrypi su[23492]: pam_unix(su-l:session): session
opened for user pi by root(uid=0)


Are you using persistent journal or volatile journal?
What are the file permissions of the journal directory?

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