Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 31/01/2023 16:57, debian@sioban.net wrote:
> I'm contacting you because I'm clueless on what's happening.
> Basically my issue is I don't have logs anymore :/
...
>  > systemctl start rsyslog.service
> A dependency job for rsyslog.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for 
> details.

> ❯systemctl --failed
>    UNIT                            LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION
...
> ● systemd-journald.socket         loaded failed failed Journal Socket

This line looks suspicious. I would ensure at first that journald is 
running correctly. Rsyslog likely receives logs from journald.

Are logs available through the following commands (last entries and for 
current boot)?

journalctl -e
journalctl -b

Does

systemctl status systemd-journald.service

reports any errors?