Journalctl compiled without pattern matching support, pcre2 is not in main
Bug #1751006 reported by
Bas Zoetekouw
on 2018-02-22
This bug affects 6 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | systemd (Ubuntu) |
Wishlist
|
Dimitri John Ledkov | ||
Bug Description
Please add pattern matching support to journalctl. At the moment, the -g (--grep) option as described in the man page doesn't work:
╰─▶ journalctl --grep=xhci-hcd
Compiled without pattern matching support
Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)
on 2018-02-22
| Changed in systemd (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| milestone: | none → ubuntu-18.03 |
| assignee: | nobody → Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) |
| Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : | #1 |
| summary: |
- Journalctl compiled without pattern matching support + Journalctl compiled without pattern matching support, pcre2 is not in + main |
| no longer affects: | systemd (Ubuntu Bionic) |
| no longer affects: | pcre2 (Ubuntu Bionic) |
| Changed in systemd (Ubuntu): | |
| milestone: | ubuntu-18.03 → later |
| importance: | High → Wishlist |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #2 |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
| Changed in pcre2 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Michał J. Gajda (mgajda) wrote : | #3 |
Maybe we can have `journalctl-grep` package for administrators that use this grep functionality for checking what happened? Nowadays debugging is recognized as foremost computing activity, even chips have special JTAG pins to allow online debugging.
I could expect most of the system administrators with big logs would appreciate faster searching of log files thanks to `journalctl -g` in the leading cloud operating system.
| Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) wrote : | #4 |
pcre2 was promoted to main today for Ubuntu 19.04.
| no longer affects: | pcre2 (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in systemd (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
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pcre2 library is not in Ubuntu Main, and therefore cannot be used, at runtime, by such a core package as systemd.
once pcre2 is available in main, and thus has full Ubuntu Security support, I will be able to enable pattern matching support.