Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng "Failed to seek to the Cursor"

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 09/16/2015 06:55:00 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 16/09/2015 17:57, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > I have syslog-ng-3.7.1 installed here.
> > Syslog-ng fails to start with the message:
> > Failed to seek to the Cursor cursor='', error='Success (0)'
> >
> > Does anybody know what's happening?
> >
> > Many thanks for a hint,
> > Helmut
> >
> >
> 
> 
> It has something to do with systemd's log thingy.
> 
> The error only appears in one place in the syslog-ng source,
> in modules/systemd-journal/journal-reader.c:
> 
> static inline gboolean
> __seek_to_saved_state(JournalReader *self)
> {
>   JournalReaderState *state =
> persist_state_map_entry(self->persist_state, self->persist_handle);
>   gint rc = journald_seek_cursor(self->journal, state->cursor);
>   persist_state_unmap_entry(self->persist_state,
> self->persist_handle);
>   if (rc != 0)
>     {
>       msg_warning("Failed to seek to the cursor",
>           evt_tag_str("cursor", state->cursor),
>           evt_tag_errno("error", errno),
>           NULL);
>       return __seek_to_head(self);
>     }
>   journald_next(self->journal);
>   return TRUE;
> }
> 
> 
> First step would appear to be to check systemd's built-in log thingy
> 

Thanks Alan,

but how to do that. I have systemd installed here but I haven't ever used it 
since I'm using openrc.
So, what can I do?

Thanks,
Helmut