[systemd-devel] Journald stops logging when lots of output

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Pedro Francisco
<pedrogfrancisco at gmail.com> wrote:
> (question migrated from test at lists.fedoraproject.org )
>
> On Fedora 19, journald ( systemd-204-9.fc19.i686 ) stops logging. I
> had enabled lots of iwl3945 debugging ( various messages for each
> iwl3945 interaction -- modprobe iwl3945 debug=0x47ffffff ) throughout
> the night and the last thing `journalctl -b` has is:
>
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd-journal[29414]: Allowing system journal
> files to grow to 1.4G.
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd-journal[29414]: Journal started
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process
> exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd[1]: Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to
> Persistent Storage.
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process
> exited, code=killed, status=10/USR1
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd[1]: Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to
> Persistent Storage.
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process
> exited, code=killed, status=10/USR1
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd[1]: Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to
> Persistent Storage.
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd-journal[29419]: Allowing system journal
> files to grow to 1.4G.
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd-journal[29419]: Journal started
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process
> exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd[1]: Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to
> Persistent Storage.
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd-journal[29423]: Allowing system journal
> files to grow to 1.4G.
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd-journal[29423]: Journal started
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process
> exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Ago 03 02:25:45 s2 systemd[1]: Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to
> Persistent Storage.
>
> It is now 10:35 and while dmesg has (lots) of new info, journalctl -f does not.
>
> Any tips on what may be wrong?

Probably fixed by:
  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=8b18fdc19531ba56d0bdfe34c62870997a9bcc96

Kay