[systemd-devel] systemd-journalctl Failed to iterate through journal: Cannot allocate memory

[David Lambert]

I am getting the message: "Failed to iterate through journal: Cannot 
allocate memory" when attempting to run systemd-journalctl. Although I 
am running an embedded system (Android on Beaglebone) I appear to have 
plenty of resources as witnessed by "free" and "df":

              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        254024     145168     108856          0      29264      60876
-/+ buffers/cache:      55028     198996
Swap:            0          0          0

Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs           7678396 1582904   5710336  22% /
/dev/root        7678396 1582904   5710336  22% /
devtmpfs          126900       0    126900   0% /dev
tmpfs             127012       0    127012   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs             127012    1576    125436   2% /run
tmpfs             127012       0    127012   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs             127012    1576    125436   2% /var/run
tmpfs             127012       0    127012   0% /media
tmpfs             127012    1576    125436   2% /var/lock
tmpfs             127012      12    127000   1% /tmp

The output of "status" commands appears to be normal, and my 
/etc/systemd/systemd-journald.conf contains:

#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
#  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.
#
# See system-journald.conf(5) for details

[Journal]
#Compress=yes
#RateLimitInterval=10s
#RateLimitBurst=200
#SystemMaxUse=
#SystemKeepFree=
#SystemMaxFileSize=
#SystemMinFileSize=
RuntimeMaxUse=1M
#RuntimeKeepFree=
#RuntimeMaxFileSize=
#RuntimeMinFileSize=
ForwardToSyslog=no
#ForwardToKMsg=no
ForwardToConsole=yes
#ImportKernel=yes