Questions tagged [systemd-journald]
For questions pertaining to systemd-journald, a system service that collects and stores logging data. Use this tag for questions about systemd-journald itself, using systemd-journald, or questions about issues arising from collecting and storing logging data in systems where this task is performed by systemd-journald.
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RTC / systemd time drift
I do see the following behaviour on a SUSE SLE 15 VM (VMWare ESXi, location setting is Europe / Germany) and getting confused the more I think about it. I have shortened the journal-log output to the ...
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How to trigger an action when a kernel driver produces an error
Occasionally, my amdgpu driver errors out, freezing the system. I want to trigger a GPU reset (which is likely to solve the problem) when a specific error message appears from the amdgpu module. Is it ...
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journalctl seemingly can't handle too much logs
I have a systemctl service that generates rather high volume of logs, on the order of 20-50 Gb per day. The service runs on a VPS with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The service is written in node.js, and simply ...
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systemd message litters tuigreet / greetd
A failing mount unit's systemd message somehow ends up on the tuigreet / greetd screen. I suspected the problem stemmed from using VT1 for greetd which is used by systemd to log messages there but the ...
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Why syslogd receives the message and not journald?
I have tried to log into journald using logger. logger test, journalctl |grep test does not show any output. The message does not reach journald even though it listening and logger is writing (I ...
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systemd-journald writes an average of 16MB per hour!
OS: Ubuntu MATE 24.04.2 LTS I added the system monitor to my top panel and noticed much disk activity. At first I thought the main 'culprit' was jbd2 -- Journaling Block Device. But jbd2 ("a ...
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tails booting issue
im getting this error while booting tails from a usb stick. i tried the same usb with another laptop it works fine. but trying with my asus g14 its not working, the error is shown in the screenshot. ...
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How can I use --machine to see another user's units in journalctl?
With systemctl, I can start and stop the user service units of a different user using: sudo systemctl --user --machine=OTHER_USER@ stop their.service How can I achieve this behaviour with journalctl? ...
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