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0 pointsviraptor3y ago0 comments

Keep in mind that rsyslog doesn't even attempt to verify logs. An alternative explanation is: my system is corrupting logs, I changed to a logging daemon which doesn't tell me about it.

I mean, there could definitely be a bug in journald, but I haven't seen any fixes mentioned in changelog for the last 5 years and if it was happening in standard usage, people would notice.

For recovering corrupted logs - you can still "less" them as usual. They have some extra markers, but the text is available as text. Journalctl has some special options for that too.

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heretogetout3y ago

IIRC when I experienced this the logs were all in some binary format that couldn't easily be less'd. tbh I didn't do much investigation other than to see the "delete all your logs" resolution suggestion. There could have been a better option.

lokar3y ago

The fact that it can't seem to recover from a few bad records and gives up on the whole file demonstrates what terrible software it is.

viraptorOP3y ago

Have you tried it? Journalctl does skip bad entries and prints out the rest automatically. If you've found a case where it doesn't, you should report that as a bug.

heretogetout3y ago

It may do that nowadays but it definitely didn't back when I experienced this issue. This matches my experience:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1y6q0l/systemds_bina...

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0 pointsviraptor3y ago0 comments

Keep in mind that rsyslog doesn't even attempt to verify logs. An alternative explanation is: my system is corrupting logs, I changed to a logging daemon which doesn't tell me about it.

I mean, there could definitely be a bug in journald, but I haven't seen any fixes mentioned in changelog for the last 5 years and if it was happening in standard usage, people would notice.

For recovering corrupted logs - you can still "less" them as usual. They have some extra markers, but the text is available as text. Journalctl has some special options for that too.

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heretogetout3y ago

lokar3y ago

The fact that it can't seem to recover from a few bad records and gives up on the whole file demonstrates what terrible software it is.

viraptorOP3y ago

Have you tried it? Journalctl does skip bad entries and prints out the rest automatically. If you've found a case where it doesn't, you should report that as a bug.

heretogetout3y ago

It may do that nowadays but it definitely didn't back when I experienced this issue. This matches my experience:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1y6q0l/systemds_bina...

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