Bug 64291

Summary:	Invoking sudo makes journalctl -f re-output everything
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Jonas H. <jonas>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	jonas
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64293 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59856 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64296
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Description Jonas H. 2013-05-06 21:02:56 UTC

To reproduce:

In terminal 1:
$ sudo journalctl -f

In terminal 2:
$ sudo ls

What happens? journalctl re-outputs all the journal content
What is expected to happen? journalctl should stay in the same state.

Comment 1 Jonas H. 2013-05-06 21:03:36 UTC

Version 202 on Arch Linux

Comment 2 danielcotton.bugtrackers 2014-10-08 06:37:02 UTC

I can't reproduce this with systemd 208 on Centos 7.0.1406

Comment 3 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2014-11-27 05:39:44 UTC

This was definetely an issue (I saw it myself a few times). I think it was caused by loops (or rather jumps) in the journal reading code, and we fixed a bunch of those during the last year. I'll mark this as fixed, please reopen if it happens again with systemd >= 217.

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