[systemd-bugs] [Bug 74714] journalctl crashes when journal is corrupted

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74714

--- Comment #5 from Janna Martl <janna.martl109 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > Is there any chance you could pass us the journal files triggering this?
> > 
> > Do you think that it's journalctl getting confused? I thought that the
> > kernel is sending SIGBUS because it can't read the mmap'ed file.
> 
> Oh, hmm, this is a bit confusing in the original bug report.
> 
> Janna, the IO error you saw, did that happen when the file was corrupted, or
> when you viewed the file? In the latter case the SIGBUS is to be expected.
> In the former case this would be a bug in journalctl.

I meant the latter. I'm pretty sure the files were corrupted before journalctl
got around to reading them, and the crash was caused by a read error. Sorry for
the confusion.

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