Stephen Davies writes:
I've been reviewing the system log after rebooting and find that
the
journald entries below are present in all cases.
I do not know whether they are a cause or an effect.
What do they mean?
Dec 24 14:15:46 mustang systemd-coredump[5168]: Process 5132 (systemd-
journal) of user 0 dumped core.
This looks fairly cut and dry to me. systemd-journal blows chunks and
crashes. That's what this says. Since this is a critical component of
systemd it would not be surprising that something like that ends up taking
the whole system down.
A few log lines down, there's an indication that something restarts it.
This would explain why your system slows down, before going kaput. systemd-
journal starts crashing. Something respawns it again, which, of course,
results in it crashing again. Lather, rinse, repeat.