[Bug 1858412] [NEW] systemd vacuuming does not work for remote journals

[Kai Bojens]

Public bug reported:

systemd has an issue in regard to vacuuming remote journals:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2376 - this affects 18.04 as
this version still has this problem.

Steps to reproduce on "Description:     Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS":

root at 1:~# du -hs /var/log/journal/remote/
8.6G	/var/log/journal/remote/
root at 1:~# journalctl -D /var/log/journal/remote --vacuum-size=100M
root at 1:~# du -hs /var/log/journal/remote/
8.6G	/var/log/journal/remote/

Would it be possible to backport this trivial patch
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/13924 into 18.04?

** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  systemd vacuuming does not work for remote journals

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  systemd has an issue in regard to vacuuming remote journals:
  https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2376 - this affects 18.04 as
  this version still has this problem.

  Steps to reproduce on "Description:     Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS":

  root at 1:~# du -hs /var/log/journal/remote/
  8.6G	/var/log/journal/remote/
  root at 1:~# journalctl -D /var/log/journal/remote --vacuum-size=100M
  root at 1:~# du -hs /var/log/journal/remote/
  8.6G	/var/log/journal/remote/

  Would it be possible to backport this trivial patch
  https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/13924 into 18.04?

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