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journalctl -b -1 always shows the same log?
When reading the manual for journalctl I get the impression that -b -1 will show the boot one before the most recent.
When I use it I'm always shown the same log. Did I misunderstand something? I've ...
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systemd-journald[304]: Journal stopped
Whenever I try to shutdown my system, it just ends up stuck on a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left.
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
I have done a fresh install of Ubuntu twice with no ...
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How to analyze system errors when journalctl fails?
One of my KVM servers (2 Xeon E5-2680 v2, 1 AMD Vega 10 GPU, Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS) became unresponsive last night. Of the 5 VMs running on the server, only one could be reached. The server itself ...
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How to mount a partition's subdirectory for /var/log/journal?
Our server (Ubuntu 18) has a large partition mounted as /publish/data (its a VM, provided as IaaS so that is how it is mounted when extra disk space is requested), it is defined in fstab as follows:
/...
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Why journalctl outputs in ASCII?
I have a regular Ubuntu 16.04 server VM. My locale is set up to utf-8 everywhere:
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="...
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Setting up journalctl on Ubuntu Linux
I am trying to use journalctl on my remote Ubuntu Linux box. I understand that I need to setup a config file journald.conf under /etc/systemd/ folder with permissions. But What I am struggling to ...
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does journalctl eliminate the need for most logging?
I am playing around with journalctl and getting used to the whole systemd setup, but having a hard time defining what it is actually doing...
this site (https://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/using-...
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