imjournal state file gets corrupt when unexpected reboot or system shutdown happened
Issue
- Old log appeared in the
/var/log/messages
when an unexpected reboot happened on my system. - The same log message happened again after resetting the server even though the log messages rotated.
- It seems that the
imjournal
state file got corrupt. - Following log message appeared when starting the rsyslog service.
Dec 12 01:24:56 example rsyslogd: imjournal: fscanf on state file `/var/lib/rsyslog/imjournal.state' failed [v8.24.0-34.el7 try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2027 ]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and 8
- rsyslog
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