> On Mar 5, 2015 6:13 PM, "Randy Witt" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> systemd by default tries to write the journal to /var/log/journal. >> But base-files has a symlink /var/log -> /var/volatile/log. And >> /var/volatile is a tmpfs mount in /etc/fstab. >> >> If the journal service started before /var/volatile was mounted (which >> was the typical scenario) then the journal would appear empty since >> the old location was mounted over. >> >> This change fixes the problem by ensuring that the journal doesn't start >> until after the mount happens. >> > > What happens if folks have a different fstab then default? Will it still > work
Yes, the "After" only changes behavior if something else has caused var-volatile.mount to be in the set of services to be started. I verified that was the case by removing /var/volatile from /etc/fstab and the journal still starts with no errors. >> [Yocto #7388] >> >> Signed-off-by: Randy Witt <[email protected]> >> --- >> meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/journald-volatile.conf | 6 ++++++ >> meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_219.bb | 2 ++ >> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) >> create mode 100644 > meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/journald-volatile.conf >> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/journald-volatile.conf > b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/journald-volatile.conf >> new file mode 100644 >> index 0000000..b11e160 >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/journald-volatile.conf >> @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ >> +# If /var/volatile is a mount point then make sure to mount it before >> +# the journal starts. This is because base-files creates a symlink >> +# /var/log -> /var/volatile/log. And if the journal starts before the > mount >> +# happens, the journal will appear empty until restarted. >> +[Unit] >> +After=var-volatile.mount >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_219.bb > b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_219.bb >> index 3c4b6cf..2be66af 100644 >> --- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_219.bb >> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_219.bb >> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git:// > anongit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd;branch=master;protocol= >> file://00-create-volatile.conf \ >> file://init \ >> file://run-ptest \ >> + file://journald-volatile.conf \ >> " >> >> S = "${WORKDIR}/git" >> @@ -143,6 +144,7 @@ do_install() { >> install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/*.rules >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/udev/rules.d/ >> >> install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/00-create-volatile.conf > ${D}${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/ >> + install -D -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/journald-volatile.conf > ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/systemd-journald.service.d/journald-volatile.conf >> >> if > ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES','sysvinit','true','false',d)}; then >> install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d >> -- >> 1.9.3 >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> Openembedded-core mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
