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lphrgg

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Registered: 2023-05-25

Posts: 14

journalctl scroll up by keyboard is broken

Recently the journalctl does not respond to pressing the up button on my arch linux.
But on ubuntu 24.04 i can still press the up button and the logs will scroll up.

sys info:

#systemd 257 (257.2-2-arch)

# System Details Report
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## Report details
- **Date generated:**                              2025-01-19 19:01:02

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**                              ASRock B650M Pro RS
- **Memory:**                                      32.0 GiB
- **Processor:**                                   AMD Ryzen™ 5 7500F × 12
- **Graphics:**                                    AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 GRE
- **Disk Capacity:**                               1.4 TB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:**                            2.10
- **OS Name:**                                     Arch Linux
- **OS Build:**                                    rolling
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**                               47
- **Windowing System:**                            Wayland
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.12.9-zen1-1-zen

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,119

Re: journalctl scroll up by keyboard is broken

worksforme™ , which command are you using? Generally speaking journalctl will use less as it's pager, so you either modified that, have some LESSPAGER environment that modifies behavior, or your terminal emulator overrides up button behavior.