Bug 79380

Summary:	Journal: missing boots
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Michael Kuhn <suraia>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	benjarobin+freedesktop, medhefgo, szunti
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	journalctl outputs to analyse the problem journal: Fix sd_journal_enumerate_unique skipping values

Description Michael Kuhn 2014-05-28 17:49:25 UTC

journalctl --list-boots suddenly decided to stop showing my more recent boots. This sounds very similar to: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019082.html

I have updated to systemd 213 today, but I am not sure if it was already broken with 212.

% journalctl -F _BOOT_ID | wc -l
258

% journalctl --list-boots | wc -l
56

(The output is correctly ordered, but stops some time in March.)

The journal is stored on ext4, so I would rule out any file system problems (the mailing list poster was using btrfs). journalctl --verify also reports all journal files as PASSing.

Comment 1 Benjamin Robin 2014-07-11 19:52:32 UTC

I have no idea if this is exactly the same bug, but it looks very similar. The version of systemd used is 214.

After a quick analyze it looks like "journalctl --list-boots" doesn't read "system.journal" but only read the files "system@xxxx.journal".
Please see the attached file with more information.

Comment 2 Benjamin Robin 2014-07-11 19:53:25 UTC

Created attachment 102642 [details]
journalctl outputs to analyse the problem

Comment 3 Jan 2014-10-08 19:02:53 UTC

Created attachment 107576 [details] [review]
journal: Fix sd_journal_enumerate_unique skipping values

Can you try this patch and see if it fixed things?

Comment 4 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2014-10-10 03:48:35 UTC

Patch applied: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=06cc69d44c.
See also: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=360af4cf6f.

Comment 5 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2014-10-10 03:58:32 UTC

Also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095962.

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