Public bug reported:
This ticket is more related to the default configuration of journald in
Ubuntu, not to a bug in journald itself.
I was looking for a problem on my computer and used journalctl. The
first log entry was starting 2 years ago, showing that its content was
never erased or rotated.
By looking at the log size, it was about 3 GB, which is getting big for
a log file.
I think Ubuntu should ship with a default configuration to avoid this
log to grow too much.
I started with Ubuntu 18.04 and now I am using Ubuntu 20.04
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: systemd 245.2-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu24
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Apr 8 10:13:25 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-07 (732 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180403)
MachineType: MSI MS-7971
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-21-generic
root=UUID=8ba07857-778c-4c11-a816-69094a9b6a9d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: systemd
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-04 (3 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 12/21/2016
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.H0
dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.board.name: Z170-A PRO (MS-7971)
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.H0:bd12/21/2016:svnMSI:pnMS-7971:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnZ170-APRO(MS-7971):rvr1.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.family: Default string
dmi.product.name: MS-7971
dmi.product.sku: Default string
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal
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journald log seems to grow without limit
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