Bug 10980

Summary:	4_a1: unable to see system messages with journalctl
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Bit Twister <bittwister2>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	bittwister2, mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	systemd-206-5.mga4.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Bit Twister 2013-08-12 05:24:39 CEST

Description of problem:

unable to see system messages with journalctl even though I am in the adm group.

$ groups
bittwister adm disk lp floppy games cdrom usb cdwriter audio video <snip>

This worked on Mageia 3.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
Clean install of Mageia-4-alpha1-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso. 
Default runlevel: 3
Followed with:
remove-unused-packages
urpmi --downloader wget --auto --auto-update
urpme --auto-orphans and reboot. 

1. click up a terminal as user
2. journalctl | grep systemd 
  Note, no lines shown
3. su - root
4. journalctl | grep systemd | head 


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Manuel Hiebel 2013-08-12 19:31:07 CEST

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 1 Bit Twister 2013-08-12 20:23:16 CEST

mageia 3
# dir -h /var/log/journal/$(cat /etc/machine-id)
total 45M
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 21:02 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K May 20 08:57 ..
-rw-r-----  1 root adm   12M Aug 12 13:13 system.journal
-rw-r-----+ 1 root adm  4.0M Aug 12 13:02 user-1500.journal
-rw-r-----+ 1 root adm  3.6M Aug 10 06:06 user-1505.journal

mageia 4
# dir -h /var/log/journal/$(cat /etc/machine-id)
total 12M
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Aug 12 13:09 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:18 ..
-rw-r-----  1 root root 4.8M Aug 12 13:15 system.journal
-rw-r-----+ 1 root root 3.6M Aug 12 13:07 user-1500@cd3bcd3da8eb4528815a3d8880ea06de-0000000000000502-0004e3b6d8d65657.journal
-rw-r-----+ 1 root root 3.6M Aug 12 13:14 user-1500.journal

Comment 2 Bit Twister 2013-09-18 13:19:26 CEST

(In reply to Bit Twister from comment #0)

> This worked on Mageia 3.


 man systemd-journald
indicates 
       Distributions and
       administrators may choose to grant read access to all members of the
       "wheel" and "adm" system groups with a command such as the following:

     setfacl -Rnm g:wheel:rx,d:g:wheel:rx,g:adm:rx,d:g:adm:rx /var/log/journal/

Your decision to resolve this if Mageia Distribution is now leaving it up to the system administrator to issue the command.

If so, I suggest a note in the errata document just to keep any further bug reports about it.

Comment 3 Colin Guthrie 2013-09-18 17:49:21 CEST

While I think errata is more for bugs in our distribution that could not be fixed prior to release, and this is a deliberate change in behaviour by upstream to not force behaviour on downstreams, the errata does seem like the best place to put it.

Please feel free to edit the errata if you get a moment:
  https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_4_Errata

Comment 4 Bit Twister 2013-09-21 22:15:48 CEST

Added "User access to system log messages"  to "Software Issues" of errata document.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => junknospam
Resolution: (none) => FIXED