[systemd-devel] Missing previous boot system journal

[Yunchih Chen]

I am 100% sure it is run as root.
Is there other debug info I can provide?  Thanks for your help.

2016-11-23 16:33 GMT+08:00 陳耘志 <yunchih.cat at gmail.com>:
> The following commands are run with root privilege.
>
> 2016-11-22 23:52 GMT+08:00 Yun-Chih Chen <yunchih.cat at gmail.com>:
>> I've explicitly enabled persistent storage in journald.conf.  However, it
>> seems that the system journal of previous boot is still missing; only some
>> user journal persisted.  Am I missing anything?  Thanks in advance.
>>
>> I'm running on Archlinux with Linux 4.8.4 and systemd 231-4.
>>
>> Here's some output:
>>
>> $ journalctl -b -1 -k
>> -- No entries --
>>
>> $ journalctl -b -1
>> -- Logs begin at Fri 2016-02-05 00:16:50 CST, end at Tue 2016-11-22 23:35:47
>> CST. --
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Reached target Timers.
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Listening on Sound System.
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus
>> Socket.
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Reached target Paths.
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Listening on D-Bus User Message Bus
>> Socket.
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Reached target Sockets.
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Reached target Basic System.
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Starting Update XDG user dir
>> configuration...
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Started Update XDG user dir
>> configuration.
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Reached target Default.
>> Nov 09 08:27:14 server systemd[19336]: Startup finished in 124ms.
>> Nov 09 08:53:57 server systemd[19336]: Stopped target Default.
>> Nov 09 08:53:57 server systemd[19336]: Stopped target Basic System.
>> Nov 09 08:53:57 server systemd[19336]: Stopped target Paths.
>> Nov 09 08:53:57 server systemd[19336]: Stopped target Timers.
>> Nov 09 08:53:57 server systemd[19336]: Stopped target Sockets.
>> Nov 09 08:53:57 server systemd[19336]: Closed D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
>> Nov 09 08:53:57 server systemd[19336]: Closed Sound System.
>> Nov 09 08:53:57 server systemd[19336]: Reached target Shutdown.
>> Nov 09 08:53:58 server systemd[19336]: Starting Exit the Session...
>> Nov 09 08:53:58 server systemd[19336]: Received SIGRTMIN+24 from PID 6632
>> (kill).
>> Nov 09 08:58:54 server systemd[8229]: Reached target Timers.
>> Nov 09 08:58:54 server systemd[8229]: Reached target Paths.
>> Nov 09 08:58:54 server systemd[8229]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus
>> Socket.
>> Nov 09 08:58:54 server systemd[8229]: Listening on Sound System.
>>
>> // There's only one system.journal file under /var/log/journal
>> $ ls /var/log/journal/65f854e19e1d43049c5e058f1f93648f | tail
>> -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal  8388608 Nov 22 22:21 user-30130.journal
>> -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal  8388608 Nov 22 22:46 user-66461.journal
>> -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal  8388608 Nov 22 22:46 user-66401.journal
>> -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal  8388608 Nov 22 22:56 user-66358.journal
>> -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal  8388608 Nov 22 23:27 user-1000.journal
>> -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal  8388608 Nov 22 23:32 user-66704.journal
>> -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 25165824 Nov 22 23:37 user-10000.journal
>> -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal  8388608 Nov 22 23:37 user-65979.journal
>> -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 16777216 Nov 22 23:37 system.journal
>>
>> $ journalctl --list-boots
>> -6 8d87ad64bd304262a3fb7dd168e5b281 Fri 2016-02-05 00:16:50 CST—Fri
>> 2016-02-05 01:00:15 CST
>> -5 f23f466ad9b14b99ae32df044cb99f5f Sun 2016-04-24 15:29:21 CST—Sat
>> 2016-04-30 10:01:31 CST
>> -4 d834ef74d7504da0a10389581de5521a Sun 2016-06-19 14:02:16 CST—Sat
>> 2016-07-09 10:01:31 CST
>> -3 940aeff685804fe193f4e4e767234c24 Mon 2016-07-25 08:06:07 CST—Sat
>> 2016-08-06 07:00:25 CST
>> -2 fa52bc6f582b4df083e57863e000ffad Thu 2016-09-29 18:04:51 CST—Tue
>> 2016-10-25 23:59:19 CST
>> -1 2815d7f541644e9a8a9d778f1c69838e Wed 2016-11-09 08:27:18 CST—Mon
>> 2016-11-21 17:57:41 CST
>>  0 0ab0d3a3955241e9b16b22674046cea7 Tue 2016-11-22 21:15:26 CST—Tue
>> 2016-11-22 23:40:28 CST
>>
>>
>> Here's the content of /etc/systemd/journald.conf:
>>
>> [Journal]
>> Storage=persistent
>> #Compress=yes
>> #Seal=yes
>> #SplitMode=uid
>> #SyncIntervalSec=5m
>> #RateLimitIntervalSec=30s
>> #RateLimitBurst=1000
>> #SystemMaxUse=
>> #SystemKeepFree=
>> #SystemMaxFileSize=
>> #SystemMaxFiles=100
>> #RuntimeMaxUse=
>> #RuntimeKeepFree=
>> #RuntimeMaxFileSize=
>> #RuntimeMaxFiles=100
>> #MaxRetentionSec=
>> #MaxFileSec=1month
>> #ForwardToSyslog=no
>> #ForwardToKMsg=no
>> #ForwardToConsole=no
>> #ForwardToWall=yes
>> #TTYPath=/dev/console
>> #MaxLevelStore=debug
>> #MaxLevelSyslog=debug
>> #MaxLevelKMsg=notice
>> #MaxLevelConsole=info
>> #MaxLevelWall=emerg