Fedora 23: almost no logging in journal

1 minute read Modified: 11 Aug, 2018

The upgrade

Recently I upgraded a server from Fedora 21 to Fedora 23. This was a difficult process because newer kernels (> 3.14.23-100.fc19) won’t work with the system. Finally I was able to boot the system with the old kernel, but I was not seeing any information in /var/log/maillog. Sendmail was running and I was able to send and receive messages, but nothing was written to the maillog.

When I talked to somebody in #fedora he mentioned I could do a test by running the following simple command:

logger "hello world"

This resulted in an error message:

logger: socket /dev/log: Connection refused

The workaround

Using an internet search on this gave me the solution.

rm /dev/log; ln -s /run/systemd/journal/dev-log /dev/log

After this the logging appeared again.

This is only a workaround, because after every reboot, the problem is there again. Maybe I’ll investigate further when I get a recent kernel running.