<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEEDINFO " title="NEEDINFO --- - journalctl --since $DATE contains entries from before $DATE" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64296#c6">Comment # 6</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEEDINFO " title="NEEDINFO --- - journalctl --since $DATE contains entries from before $DATE" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64296">bug 64296</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:drizzd@aon.at" title="Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>"> Clemens Buchacher</a> <pre>I have modified journalctl to output file and cursor instead of payload fields (<a href="https://github.com/drizzd/systemd">https://github.com/drizzd/systemd</a>), and now it is easy to see that the files user-120.journal and <a href="mailto:user-1000@0004df35caac7448-f0d0cc1ab7d0a25e.journal">user-1000@0004df35caac7448-f0d0cc1ab7d0a25e.journal</a>~ are inconsistent. They use the same seqnum_id, but their seqnums are not monotonic. $ sudo ~/src/systemd/journalctl --since 2013-07-17 --until 2013-07-18 [...] Jul 17 14:33:25 /var/log/journal/7077725e2734c7b16dbbe92a00000b89/user-120.journal [s=1e8bf438a4954ed29f9f9e18d06d2ba8;i=23be3;b=f3bb91d108fe42088d15babff2094f17;m=249cc0d;t=4e1b44cd11eb4;x=a739d43d2e7dd4f0] -- Reboot -- Jun 15 10:28:50 /var/log/journal/7077725e2734c7b16dbbe92a00000b89/<a href="mailto:user-1000@0004df35caac7448-f0d0cc1ab7d0a25e.journal">user-1000@0004df35caac7448-f0d0cc1ab7d0a25e.journal</a>~ [s=1e8bf438a4954ed29f9f9e18d06d2ba8;i=23be4;b=aba85173ce764cfbb338f9c1ee385293;m=ead55eac0;t=4df2d2726c2c8;x=9d6e45264e28f715] -- Reboot -- Jul 17 14:33:26 /var/log/journal/7077725e2734c7b16dbbe92a00000b89/user-120.journal [s=1e8bf438a4954ed29f9f9e18d06d2ba8;i=23be4;b=f3bb91d108fe42088d15babff2094f17;m=24f84b7;t=4e1b44cd6d75e;x=4c7b5deba69f0a1f] -- Reboot -- Jun 15 10:28:50 /var/log/journal/7077725e2734c7b16dbbe92a00000b89/<a href="mailto:user-1000@0004df35caac7448-f0d0cc1ab7d0a25e.journal">user-1000@0004df35caac7448-f0d0cc1ab7d0a25e.journal</a>~ [s=1e8bf438a4954ed29f9f9e18d06d2ba8;i=23be5;b=aba85173ce764cfbb338f9c1ee385293;m=ead55eb4e;t=4df2d2726c356;x=9d6e45264e28f715] [...] File Path: /var/log/journal/7077725e2734c7b16dbbe92a00000b89/<a href="mailto:user-1000@0004df35caac7448-f0d0cc1ab7d0a25e.journal">user-1000@0004df35caac7448-f0d0cc1ab7d0a25e.journal</a>~ Sequential Number ID: 1e8bf438a4954ed29f9f9e18d06d2ba8 Head Sequential Number: 109789 Tail Sequential Number: 148676 Head Realtime Timestamp: Wed 2013-05-29 00:57:44 CEST Tail Realtime Timestamp: Sat 2013-06-15 20:44:25 CEST File Path: /var/log/journal/7077725e2734c7b16dbbe92a00000b89/user-120.journal Sequential Number ID: 1e8bf438a4954ed29f9f9e18d06d2ba8 Head Sequential Number: 136044 Tail Sequential Number: 158116 Head Realtime Timestamp: Sun 2013-06-09 14:04:49 CEST Tail Realtime Timestamp: Mon 2013-07-22 14:05:41 CEST I have been running systemd 204 from May 20 until now.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>