Bug#698555: unblock: systemd/44-8

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2013-01-20 13:53 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
>
> Please unblock package systemd
>
> It contains the following two fixes:
>
> systemd (44-8) unstable; urgency=low
>
>   * Team upload.
>   * Use comment=systemd.* syntax in systemd.mount man page. The
>     mount/util-linux version in wheezy is not recent enough to support the new
>     x-systemd* syntax. Closes: #697141
>   * Don't enable persistent storage of journal log files. The journal in v44
>     is not yet mature enough.
>
>  -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:05:05 +0100
>
> The journal related changes probably deserve a couple of words: The
> journal in v44 is still pretty new and not yet very robust. Under
> certain circumstances (e.g. system crash) the journal can become
> corrupted. While newer versions are much more likely to recover from
> such a situation, in v44 one needs to remove the journal files in
> /var/log/journal manually.
> By not making the journal files persistent, after a reboot the journal
> will be working again in any case.
> We also still ship a syslog by default in Debian, so we do have
> long-term logs.
> So we decided to not ship /var/log/journal in the package for wheezy.
> In that case systemd-journald will not store any log files on disk.

Are current users of systemd advised to remove /var/log/journal
themselves?  Having used systemd exclusively for a few weeks, I
discovered a 23 Megabyte system.journal file which apparently never got
rotated or truncated.

Cheers,
       Sven