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#1 2015-07-04 21:05:59

xganesh
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journalctl: Error was encountered while opening journal files: No data

# journalctl

Error was encountered while opening journal files: No data available

# journalctl --list-boots

Error was encountered while opening journal files: No data available

# SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug journalctl

Root directory /var/log/journal added.
Considering /var/log/journal/0a547e4ba573cc717bc7206200000b43.
Directory /var/log/journal/0a547e4ba573cc717bc7206200000b43 added.
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#2 2015-07-04 21:11:40

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Re: journalctl: Error was encountered while opening journal files: No data

What is the output  of journalctl --verify  ?


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#4 2015-07-05 02:40:02

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Re: journalctl: Error was encountered while opening journal files: No data

# journalctl --verify

Error was encountered while opening journal files: No data available

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#5 2015-07-07 14:18:09

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Re: journalctl: Error was encountered while opening journal files: No data

I have the same issue on my Macbook Pro 9,2 (x86_64) while my other computer (i686) does not have this issue.
Actually I was just about to create a new thread until I fortunately found this.

What might be also relevant is, that 2 days ago or so, when I powered off my computer, it stopped at

[  OK  ] Reached target Shutdown.

After that there are usually two more lines in grey (without the green [OK])
I don't know their exact content, but it is something like this:

cgroup: option or name missmatch: old: "", new: "systemd"
reboot: Power down.

I see these two lines on my other computer as well and it has always been like this, so I don't think they are relevant, rather normal.

I should probably mention, that I powered off the computer from a terminal within X via 'systemctl poweroff -i' while root was logged in on another tty and probably the user on another one as well, running an ssh-session.
I have configured X to be killed by ctrl-alt-bksp.

So when the shutdown process was stuck several seconds, I pressed ctrl-alt-bksp and everything continued as usual.
Btw.,  isn't it strange, that journalctl says, it would remove the directory /var/log/journal, though does no?. Or is it recreated afterwards?
Also 'journalctl --system', which is said to be working according to a post on the bug-page, does not work for me.

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#6 2015-07-07 20:01:21

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#7 2015-07-10 03:01:15

xganesh
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Re: journalctl: Error was encountered while opening journal files: No data

# journalctl --verify --file /var/log/journal/*/system.journal

PASS: /var/log/journal/0a547e4ba573cc717bc7206200000b43/system.journal

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#8 2015-07-15 07:00:02

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Re: journalctl: Error was encountered while opening journal files: No data

That bug is for a different error?

This has separately been reported to freedesktop directly: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90815

The implication is that it is a corruption-type issue that is being taken more seriously. Before, the corruption either wasn't noticed or it was ignored.

The "temp" fix is to simply delete your journals prior to a reboot (maybe there's a cleaner way to clear without a reboot?). Systemd will automatically recreate new journal files. The down side of this, of course, is that you lose the journal history. I've done this now and am no longer seeing the error:

root@ ~ # rm /var/log/journal/* -rf

The more comprehensive fix will need to come from the systemd devs.


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