[systemd-devel] Q: "systemd-journald: ... /system.journal: Journal file uses a different sequence number ID, rotating."

[Andrei Borzenkov]

07.02.2025 08:57, Windl, Ulrich wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> When upgrading SLES 15 from SP5 to SP6 also involved updating systemd (from 249 to 254):
> On first boot I noticed the message "systemd-journald[673]: /var/log/journal/aefe6ef1acb28655ef1a2fa8610cef2b/system.journal: Journal file uses a different sequence number ID, rotating."
> That was kind of expected as the journal offers new features.
> However I see the same message on every boot since then.
> I suspect that journald sees some old journal log, so it wants to rotate; however shouldn't it see the newer journal log also?
> 

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/30092

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