When systemd journal storage set to 'volatile', file /run/log/journal/<machine-id>/system.journal has permissions 0640 and owner root:root. Which makes impossible for non-root user (even in systemd-journal group) to access logs. see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39181 for details
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 70866 ***
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