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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 20:52:21 +0200
From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng "Failed to seek to the Cursor"
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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=3D'', error=3D'Success (0)'
> >
> > Does anybody know what's happening?
> >
> > Many thanks for a hint,
> > Helmut
> >
> >
>=20
>=20
> It has something to do with systemd's log thingy.
>=20
> The error only appears in one place in the syslog-ng source,
> in modules/systemd-journal/journal-reader.c:
>=20
> static inline gboolean
> __seek_to_saved_state(JournalReader *self)
> {
>   JournalReaderState *state =3D
> persist_state_map_entry(self->persist_state, self->persist_handle);
>   gint rc =3D journald_seek_cursor(self->journal, state->cursor);
>   persist_state_unmap_entry(self->persist_state,
> self->persist_handle);
>   if (rc !=3D 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;
> }
>=20
>=20
> First step would appear to be to check systemd's built-in log thingy
>=20

Thanks Alan,

but how to do that. I have systemd installed here but I haven't ever used i=
t since I'm using openrc.
So, what can I do?

Thanks,
Helmut

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