Weird behavior regarding journalctl -n: Increasing the -n argument by 1 changes the output completely $ journalctl -n 1002 | head -- Logs begin at Tue 2013-04-09 12:08:24 CEST, end at Sun 2060-02-15 19:22:01 CET. -- May 06 22:15:06 x201 ... May 06 22:15:06 x201 ... May 06 22:15:06 x201 ... $ journalctl -n 1003 | head 23:05 -- Logs begin at Tue 2013-04-09 12:08:24 CEST, end at Sun 2060-02-15 19:22:01 CET. -- May 06 13:01:29 x201 ... -- Reboot -- May 06 13:40:09 x201 ... May 06 13:40:09 x201 ... Just look at the time stamps. Doesn't make too much sense if -n should behave similar to head/tail's -n.
Can you check if http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=87011c25d9 fixes things for you? Also, http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=cbd671772 should fix one the ways that looped journals are produced, but it won't immediately help if you have such journals currently.
Can't reproduce it in the old version right now so I really can't say anything. I'll try again in a few days.
Closing all stale bugs with NEEDINFO. Please open a new bug at https://github.com/systemd/issues if the problem still occurs.
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