From: Randy Witt <randy.e.witt@linux.intel.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: [PATCH] systemd: Fix the problem of an empty journal on boot
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:11:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1425607906-21810-1-git-send-email-randy.e.witt@linux.intel.com> (raw)
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.
[Yocto #7388]
Signed-off-by: Randy Witt <randy.e.witt@linux.intel.com>
---
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
next reply other threads:[~2015-03-06 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-06 2:11 Randy Witt [this message]
2015-03-06 4:22 ` [PATCH] systemd: Fix the problem of an empty journal on boot Khem Raj
2015-03-06 6:01 ` randy.e.witt
2015-03-06 9:18 ` Khem Raj
2015-03-07 19:37 ` Khem Raj
2015-03-11 4:48 ` Khem Raj
2015-03-11 5:09 ` Khem Raj
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