Arch Linux

marko154

Member

Registered: 2013-08-13

Posts: 14

Force syncing of journald logs

Hi,

at a point in my boot process the system crashes and shuts down completely. I first suspected hardware failure, however torture testing on my Windows partition suggests this is not the case, everything works fine there. Also the crash seem to happen at the same point every time. I can boot to single user and get a working console, but doing "systemctl default" makes it crash/shutdown, no message given. I disabled gdm and it doesn't seem to make a difference. I'd like to debug the situation, but logs are not synced due to the crash. Is there a way to force some kind of debug mode, where every single log entry would be immediately written to disk, so I could debug at what point of the process exactly the failure occurs? Any other suggestions also welcome.

Marko

ukhippo

Member

From: Non-paged pool

Registered: 2014-02-21

Posts: 366

Re: Force syncing of journald logs

Start here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … t_problems

marko154

Member

Registered: 2013-08-13

Posts: 14

Re: Force syncing of journald logs

Thanks. I tried that, but it didn't provide me with any new information, the crash would still obliterate any logs collected. At the end I found the culprit by manually running the services one by one.