Bug#1106681: systemd-journal-upload is restarting too quickly after a failure and enters failed state

purification at ukr.net purification at ukr.net
Tue May 27 18:41:35 BST 2025


Package: systemd-journal-remote
Version: 252.33-1~deb12u1

I have configured systemd-journal-upload to push system logs via https 
to a centralized location, however when the destination becomes 
inaccessible (due to a network issue or a reboot of the remote host), 
systemd-journal-upload service crashes with:

May 27 17:08:20 debian-local systemd-journal-upload[1488765]: Upload to 
https://debian-remote:19532/upload failed: Failed to connect to 
debian-remote port 19532 after 1 ms: Couldn't connect to server
May 27 17:08:20 debian-local systemd[1]: systemd-journal-upload.service: 
Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

And a second later it gives up completely:

May 27 17:08:21 debian-local systemd[1]: systemd-journal-upload.service: 
Start request repeated too quickly.
May 27 17:08:21 debian-local systemd[1]: systemd-journal-upload.service: 
Failed with result 'exit-code'.

As such, logs stop being forwarded to the destination, requiring a 
manual restart of systemd-journal-upload.

This is likely happening due to the fact that systemd-journal-upload 
systemd service file does not specify a RestartSec parameter, which 
leads to it using a default value (restart after 100ms of failure),
which in turn leads to exceeding the limit of restarts configured in 
debian's /etc/systemd/system.conf:

#DefaultStartLimitIntervalSec=10s
#DefaultStartLimitBurst=5

So it's possible that this issue can be fixed with something like 
"RestartSec=20" in the systemd-journal-upload.service.



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