Hello,

I'm running systemd-195 on ArchLinux. When starting journalctl in a verbose follow mode on an empty log it immediately exits with an error message:

$ journalctl -o verbose -f _EXE=/quiet/binary
-- Logs begin at Wed, 2012-10-24 06:32:32 CEST. --
Failed to get realtime timestamp: Cannot assign requested address

Since the given binary could be a daemon that's currently not running but is going to be started later, I would expect journalctl to wait for messages to appear (as specified in the manual).

Note that the expected behaviour is achieved in the "short" and "short-monotonic" output modes. Using another output mode results in the above error message.

Cheers,
  Felix