[systemd-devel] journald deleting logs on LiveOS boots

[Chris Murphy]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 4:50 AM Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:32 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > So far nothing I've tried gets me access to information that would
> > give a hint why systemd-journald thinks there's no free space and yet
> > it still decides to create a single 8MB system journal, which then
> > almost immediately gets deleted, including all the evidence up to that
> > point.
>
> Run journald under strace and check the results of the system calls
> used to query space? (One way to run it under strace would be to change
> the unit file to use "strace -D -o /run/output systemd-journald" as the
> process to start.)

It's a good idea but strace isn't available on Fedora live media. So I
either have to learn how to create a custom live media locally (it's a
really complicated process) or convince Fedora to add strace to live
media...

-- 
Chris Murphy