[Bug 2073628] Re: imjournal module works with rsyslog package of ubuntu 22.04 but not with ubuntu 24.04

[Andreas Hasenack]

Hello @Kent,

thanks for the update, and the reproducer. I marked the bug as confirmed
now.

Could you please try this as a quick workaround:
- add these lines to the existing /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.sbin.rsyslogd file. It is shipped empty, exactly to facilitate such local overrides/inclusions:

 @{run}/log/journal/ r,
 /etc/machine-id r,


Then just restart rsyslog:

 sudo systemctl restart rsyslog


Those are the rules I'll be including in the default apparmor profile, if it works for you. With the reproducer you gave me, there were no more DENIED apparmor messages in dmesg.


** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

** Also affects: rsyslog (Ubuntu Noble)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: rsyslog (Ubuntu Oracular)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: Confirmed

** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu Noble)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Tags added: server-todo

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Title:
  imjournal module works with rsyslog package of ubuntu 22.04 but not
  with ubuntu 24.04

Status in rsyslog package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in rsyslog source package in Noble:
  Confirmed
Status in rsyslog source package in Oracular:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  imjournal module fails to create /var/spool/rsyslog/journal-state file
  in ubuntu 24.04, rsyslog version(8.2312.0) x86 and s390x both, but
  works well in ubuntu 22.04 , rsyslog version(8.2112.0) x86 and s390x

  *******
  Ubuntu 24.04 s390x

  lsb_release -rd
  No LSB modules are available.
  Description:	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  Release:	24.04

  # apt-cache policy rsyslog
  rsyslog:
    Installed: 8.2312.0-3ubuntu9
    Candidate: 8.2312.0-3ubuntu9
    Version table:
   *** 8.2312.0-3ubuntu9 500
          500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports noble/main s390x Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  Have below line in /etc/rsyslog.conf

  module(load="imjournal" fileCreateMode="0666"
  PersistStateInterval="999"
  StateFile="/var/spool/rsyslog/journal_state")

  ul 19 18:39:35 latest-logs systemd[1]: Starting rsyslog.service - System Logging Service...
  Jul 19 18:39:35 latest-logs rsyslogd[8647]: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 102
  Jul 19 18:39:35 latest-logs rsyslogd[8647]: rsyslogd's userid changed to 102
  Jul 19 18:39:35 latest-logs systemd[1]: Started rsyslog.service - System Logging Service.
  Jul 19 18:39:35 latest-logs rsyslogd[8647]: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.2312.0" x-pid="8647" x-info="https://www.rsyslog.com"] start
  Jul 19 18:39:35 latest-logs rsyslogd[8647]: imjournal: No statefile exists, /var/spool/rsyslog/journal_state will be created (ignore if this is first run): No such file or directory >
  Jul 19 18:39:35 latest-logs rsyslogd[8647]: imjournal: Journal indicates no msgs when positioned at head.  [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/0 ]
  Jul 19 18:39:35 latest-logs rsyslogd[8647]: imjournal: journal files changed, reloading...  [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/0 ]
  Jul 19 18:39:35 latest-logs rsyslogd[8647]: imjournal: No statefile exists, /var/spool/rsyslog/journal_state will be created (ignore if this is first run): No such file or directory >
  Jul 19 18:39:35 latest-logs rsyslogd[8647]: imjournal: Journal indicates no msgs when positioned at head.  [v8.2312.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/0 ]
  lines 1-25/25 (END)

  FIle /var/spool/rsyslog/journal_state should have created and logs
  should have redirected to rsyslog server

  ******

  In Ubuntu 22.04 all is working as expected

  # lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
  Release:	22.04

  #apt-cache policy rsyslog
  rsyslog:
    Installed: 8.2112.0-2ubuntu2.2
    Candidate: 8.2112.0-2ubuntu2.2
    Version table:
   *** 8.2112.0-2ubuntu2.2 100
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  Use the same line as above in /etc/rsyslog.conf

  restart service. it did gave error about fileCreateMode which got
  ignored and proceeded to create the journal-state file and continued
  without any error

  Jul 19 18:44:37 systemd[1]: Starting System Logging Service...
  Jul 19 18:44:37 rsyslogd[13664]: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.conf, on or before line 16: parameter 'fileCreateMode' not known -- typo in co>
  Jul 19 18:44:37 systemd[1]: Started System Logging Service.
  Jul 19 18:44:37 rsyslogd[13664]: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 111
  Jul 19 18:44:37 rsyslogd[13664]: rsyslogd's userid changed to 104
  Jul 19 18:44:37 rsyslogd[13664]: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.2112.0" x-pid="13664" x-info="https://www.rsyslog.com"] start
  Jul 19 18:44:37 rsyslogd[13664]: imjournal: journal files changed, reloading...  [v8.2112.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/0 ]

  /var/spool/rsyslog# ls
  journal_state

  *****

  please help with this issue

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