[systemd-devel] Journalctl --list-boots problem

Mantas Mikulėnas grawity at gmail.com
Mon Oct 7 20:28:56 UTC 2019


Run both with SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug in the environment and compare.

Does your /etc/machine-id remain the same across boots?

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 20:32 Martin Townsend <mtownsend1973 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get journalctl --list-boots working but it always shows
> the current boot
>
> # journalctl --list-boots
>  0 c064e8c1d1a2403f9370e550bb74ecb2 Mon 2019-10-07 17:02:44 UTC—Mon
> 2019-10-07 17:17:56 UTC
>
> I'm using persistent storage and I'm sure I have /var/log/journal
> setup correctly because if I specify the directory I get the list I'm
> after
>
> # journalctl -D /var/log/journal --list-boots
> -2 90b892156cf240cfb70fbc0129163a7c Mon 2019-10-07 17:02:11 UTC—Mon
> 2019-10-07 17:02:37 UTC
> -1 c064e8c1d1a2403f9370e550bb74ecb2 Mon 2019-10-07 17:02:44 UTC—Mon
> 2019-10-07 17:31:17 UTC
>  0 ded3a4118bfc4f9682f99c3e4e2d941a Mon 2019-10-07 17:31:26 UTC—Mon
> 2019-10-07 17:31:39 UTC
>
> I'm looking through the code and in sd-journal.c it should add the
> /var/log/journal in the function add_search_paths.  Any ideas why it's
> now working unless I specify the directory explicitly. I'm building
> systemd using Yocto (thud) release.
>
> # journalctl --version
> systemd 239
> +PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX +IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP
> -LIBCRYPTSETUP -GCRYPT -GNUTLS +ACL +XZ -LZ4 -SECCOMP +BLKID -ELFUTILS
> +KMOD -IDN2 -IDN -PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid
>
> Here's the end of the configure task in case it helps
>
> Message: systemd 239
>          split /usr:                        true
>          split bin-sbin:                    true
>          prefix directory:                  /usr
>          rootprefix directory:              /
>          sysconf directory:                 /etc
>          include directory:                 /usr/include
>          lib directory:                     /usr/lib
>          rootlib directory:                 /lib
>          SysV init scripts:                 /etc/init.d
>          SysV rc?.d directories:            /etc
>          PAM modules directory:             /lib/security
>          PAM configuration directory:       /etc/pam.d
>          RPM macros directory:              /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d
>          modprobe.d directory:              /lib/modprobe.d
>          D-Bus policy directory:            /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d
>          D-Bus session directory:           /usr/share/dbus-1/services
>          D-Bus system directory:
> /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services
>          bash completions directory:
> /usr/share/bash-completion/completions
>          zsh completions directory:         /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
>          extra start script:                /etc/rc.local
>          extra stop script:                 /usr/sbin/halt.local
>          debug shell:                       /bin/sh @ /dev/tty9
>          TTY GID:                           5
>          users GID:                         -
>          maximum system UID:                999
>          maximum system GID:                999
>          minimum dynamic UID:               61184
>          maximum dynamic UID:               65519
>          minimum container UID base:        524288
>          maximum container UID base:        1878982656
>          /dev/kvm access mode:              0666
>          render group access mode:          0666
>          certificate root directory:        /etc/ssl
>          support URL:
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
>          nobody user name:                  nobody
>          nobody group name:                 nobody
>          fallback hostname:                 localhost
>          symbolic gateway hostnames:        _gateway
>          default DNSSEC mode:               no
>          default DNS-over-TLS mode:         no
>          default cgroup hierarchy:          hybrid
>          default KillUserProcesses setting: true
>          default DNS servers:               8.8.8.8
>                                             8.8.4.4
>                                             2001:4860:4860::8888
>                                             2001:4860:4860::8844
>          default NTP servers:               time1.google.com
>                                             time2.google.com
>                                             time3.google.com
>                                             time4.google.com
>          time epoch:                        0 (1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00)
>
>          enabled features: PAM, IMA, SMACK, xz, ACL, idn, nss-systemd,
> binfmt, vconsole, quotacheck, tmpfiles
> , environment.d, sysusers, firstboot, randomseed, rfkill, logind,
> machined, hostnamed, timedated, localed, ne
> tworkd, resolve, polkit, kmod, blkid, nss-myhostname, hwdb, tpm, SysV
> compat, utmp, ldconfig, hibernate, adm
> group, wheel group, gshadow
>
>          disabled features: libcryptsetup, AUDIT, AppArmor, SELinux,
> SECCOMP, zlib, lz4, bzip2, gcrypt, qrenc
> ode, microhttpd, gnutls, libcurl, libidn2, libidn, libiptc, elfutils,
> backlight, portabled, importd, timesync
> d, DNS-over-TLS, coredump, legacy pkla, efi, gnu-efi, xkbcommon,
> pcre2, dbus, glib, man pages, html pages, ma
> n page indices, debug hashmap, debug mmap cache, valgrind
>
> Many Thanks,
> Martin.
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