From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7631393F1 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7EB3E0880; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96713E0877 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:58:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wiclk2 with SMTP id lk2so86818655wic.0 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:58:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Tigw+s5YdRRnSXjo5ESOBjGayAApyKt5zCz0YMyZk4s=; b=j4rVzEUVJiX4+mgqwxBvzFbCVoY0+Krtc8SuVDXXOSxjpOjIWNNf4sLK/lczsM4cvD Bvu+JE/qSes6yOqyFa3cVFZQaHrYtHz81J88JtFKFDHmc6cOquYIzcSah5c/g7dOL/Tz UqiOS1Do5Ht57y2zczBsqMTZN7xIfvdlb0/RDnFIJEob8/ADvId1MMJ8mA8qRp7I4Cj4 wQlX2/lwC0xDCIsa4z49l6/xtUyHuNxD28IndC0AuRxSkRsquQN+zJhIpGyo0cahxnG6 dDJeXHgj1WejOC2qTwT3hh3AvnGZ372y9TQ3PLAtSzD8kdhqrb3raqByhG012umkzBpi vZZA== X-Received: by 10.194.104.200 with SMTP id gg8mr56639725wjb.144.1442429911258; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:58:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] ([105.210.58.210]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id jq10sm2712390wjc.40.2015.09.16.11.58.29 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng "Failed to seek to the Cursor" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <55F99EE4.6000902@gmail.com> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <55F9BBC4.5030307@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 20:58:12 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 240a73e5-05f8-4d1b-bb2c-e5db9653af14 X-Archives-Hash: cf0a0001ed69d8394e7e526c0816d81e On 16/09/2015 20:52, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > 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? Well you are one better than me. I _don't_ have systemd installed here but I haven't ever used it since I'm using openrc :-) I haven't seen Canek for a few days, hopefully he'll drop by and help you out - he's usually the one with the most useful systemd answers -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com