Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/27/2014 08:56 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 08:25 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/27/2014 08:08 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 07:10 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/27/2014 06:43 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Neal Becker

Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 08:25 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/27/2014 08:08 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 07:10 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 02/27/2014 06:43 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >>> > >>> On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > >>> > sudo jour

Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/27/2014 08:08 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 07:10 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/27/2014 06:43 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Neal Becker wrote: sudo journalctl --verify all say 'PASS' OK good news. It looks like some sort of throttling b

Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 07:10 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/27/2014 06:43 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > > > >> sudo journalctl --verify > >> all say 'PASS' > > > > OK good news. It looks like some sort of throttling by rsyslogd. I'm > > vag

Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/27/2014 06:43 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Neal Becker wrote: sudo journalctl --verify all say 'PASS' OK good news. It looks like some sort of throttling by rsyslogd. I'm vaguely curious if it's some runaway/annoyed process is dumping a lot of message into th

Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > sudo journalctl --verify > all say 'PASS' OK good news. It looks like some sort of throttling by rsyslogd. I'm vaguely curious if it's some runaway/annoyed process is dumping a lot of message into the journal, and whether the journal can keep

Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-26 Thread Neal Becker
Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > >> Running on btrfs (hopefully that doesn't matter) > > If you haven't set xattr +C on /var/log/journal, then if you get a chance I'd > be curious to see the results from: > > journalctl --verify > > btrfs scrub start

Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 25, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Since I'm using xattr +C on /var/log/journal at the moment, the logs don't > have Btrfs checksums, so I don't have an independent way to know if the logs > are corrupt at a file system level or just internally. journalctl --verify and Btrfs

Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 25, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > Running on btrfs (hopefully that doesn't matter) If you haven't set xattr +C on /var/log/journal, then if you get a chance I'd be curious to see the results from: journalctl --verify btrfs scrub start -BR / Depending on the size of the Btrf

Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-25 Thread Kevin Martin
On 02/25/2014 01:44 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > OK, I think there is no question that time did not go back in > /var/log/messages. > Actually, the messages are scrambled. > > First it is Jan 25. Then it it Jan 8. We go through normal looking periods > of > Jan 9 and 10, and Jan 13 before we're

Re: /var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-25 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: > OK, I think there is no question that time did not go back in > /var/log/messages. Actually, the messages are scrambled. > > First it is Jan 25. Then it it Jan 8. We go through normal looking periods > of > Jan 9 and 10, and Jan 13 before we're back on Feb 25. I don't thin

/var/log/messages is scrambled!

2014-02-25 Thread Neal Becker
OK, I think there is no question that time did not go back in /var/log/messages. Actually, the messages are scrambled. First it is Jan 25. Then it it Jan 8. We go through normal looking periods of Jan 9 and 10, and Jan 13 before we're back on Feb 25. I don't think this can be explained by