On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, walt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/23/2014 07:46 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:27 AM, walt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I used systemctl to stop and restart systemd-journald, thinking I might >>> see some useful error messages. But when systemd-journal started up >>> again the journal file was back in /var/log/journal where I want it :) >>> >>> No idea why rebooting the machine didn't do the same thing. >>> >> >> Are you sure that it is solved, and that the problem won't recur on >> the next reboot? > > <sigh> After a reboot the journal file is back in /run/log/journal. > >> If it does, my next question (an educated guess, but a guess) would be >> whether you're using an initramfs, > > No, I never have. > >> I'd also look at anything >> that might be causing issues with /var/log/journal when journald is >> launched, such as that directory being on an unmounted filesystem and >> there not being some dependency that causes journald to notice. > > This particular machine has only root and swap partitions, so there's > nothing to remain unmounted during boot. > > Having reassured myself with that claim, I now spot this journal message > (which appears only on the 'broken' machine): > > Sep 23 07:40:46 a6 systemd[1]: Found ordering cycle on sysinit.target/start > Sep 23 07:40:46 a6 systemd[1]: Found dependency on local-fs.target/start > Sep 23 07:40:46 a6 systemd[1]: Found dependency on lvm.service/start > Sep 23 07:40:46 a6 systemd[1]: Found dependency on sysinit.target/start > Sep 23 07:40:46 a6 systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job > local-fs.target/start > Sep 23 07:40:46 a6 systemd[1]: Job local-fs.target/start deleted to break > ordering cycle starting with sysinit.target/start > > I don't understand everything about that message, but it seems to imply > that systemd may think that the local filesystems are not mounted(?) > > Could this be causing my journald problem, maybe?
Where is lvm.service coming from? I suspect it is causing the ordering cycle.
