[Bug 1624151] [NEW] Registering operating systems on grub fails if systemd-journald is not active

[Sworddragon]

Public bug reported:

I'm using Ubuntu 16.10 dev with os-prober 1.70ubuntu3 and if I'm masking
systemd-journald.service, rebooting the system and then executing
"update-grub" different linux images are still successfully being
registered on grub but if an operating system is being checked with os-
prober (in this case an old Windows XP installation) I'm getting several
lines of "logger: socket /dev/log: No such file or directory" and the
related operating system is not being registered on grub.

** Affects: os-prober (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Registering operating systems on grub fails if systemd-journald is not
  active

Status in os-prober package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 16.10 dev with os-prober 1.70ubuntu3 and if I'm
  masking systemd-journald.service, rebooting the system and then
  executing "update-grub" different linux images are still successfully
  being registered on grub but if an operating system is being checked
  with os-prober (in this case an old Windows XP installation) I'm
  getting several lines of "logger: socket /dev/log: No such file or
  directory" and the related operating system is not being registered on
  grub.

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