[Fedora-livecd-list] logrotate is failing under a live spin only

[John Florian]

All the details I have so far are here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127415

Here's the general pain though.  logrotate-3.8.7-1.fc20.i686 behaves just fine for me in a regular Fedora 20 install:

# /etc/cron.daily/logrotate ; echo $?
0

However, on all my recent Fedora 20 live spins:

# /etc/cron.daily/logrotate ; echo $?
error: error renaming temp state file /var/lib/logrotate.status.tmp
0

If I tell logrotate to use a different state file, even in the same directory, it works fine.  I suspect this is rather telling:

# lsof /var/lib/logrotate.status*
COMMAND    PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF  NODE NAME
systemd-j  423 root  mem    REG   0,34  8388608 15250 /var/log/journal/2150106cce5d48d883d7253aa337cacd/system.journal
systemd-j  423 root   26u   REG   0,34  8388608 15250 /var/log/journal/2150106cce5d48d883d7253aa337cacd/system.journal
dhclient   823 root    5w   REG   0,34      519 15707 /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient--eth0.lease
journalct 1003 root  mem    REG   0,34  8388608 15250 /var/log/journal/2150106cce5d48d883d7253aa337cacd/system.journal
journalct 1003 root    5r   REG   0,34  8388608 15250 /var/log/journal/2150106cce5d48d883d7253aa337cacd/system.journal

Since I only see the problem with the live spin and a regular install doesn't show this file open by any processes I thought I'd ask around here if anyone has ideas.  It seems very odd that these processes would have this file open.
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John Florian