/var/log/messages is scrambled!

[Neal Becker]

Chris Murphy wrote:

> 
> On Feb 25, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> 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 Btrfs volume the 2nd one could take a while. This
> particular command doesn't run in the background so it'll hog that shell
> instance until completion, but it also shows some additional information in
> particular csum_errors. If there are any, see if dmesg | grep -i btrfs reports
> any btrfs related errors that include a path to file, and if any of those
> files are journal files.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Chris Murphy

sudo journalctl --verify
all say 'PASS'