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  1. Bionic (18.04)
  2. Bug #1696970
  3. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1696970

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Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote :

The journal restart can be observed on zesty as well.

However, the journal is not corrupted, the renaming and replacing took place as a safety measure due to unclean shutdown.
$ sudo journalctl --verify --file=/run/log/journal/*/*
PASS: /run/log/journal//6ff4e09ca827435bbe1b6efc2236a105/system.journal
PASS: /run/log/journal//6ff4e09ca827435bbe1b6efc2236a105/system@00055289b166aebb-17bfde05076f84d2.journal~
PASS: /run/log/journal//6ff4e09ca827435bbe1b6efc2236a105/system@b7f19f66c640442d854033592fdedbb6-0000000000013de4-0005528690181932.journal
PASS: /run/log/journal//6ff4e09ca827435bbe1b6efc2236a105/system@b7f19f66c640442d854033592fdedbb6-0000000000013569-000552843559e7e6.journal
PASS: /run/log/journal//6ff4e09ca827435bbe1b6efc2236a105/system@b7f19f66c640442d854033592fdedbb6-0000000000012d03-00055282a0e0b31b.journal
PASS: /run/log/journal//6ff4e09ca827435bbe1b6efc2236a105/system@b7f19f66c640442d854033592fdedbb6-00000000000124a8-000552806e21938c.journal
PASS: /run/log/journal//6ff4e09ca827435bbe1b6efc2236a105/system@b7f19f66c640442d854033592fdedbb6-0000000000011ca8-0005527efc9ec6de.journal
PASS: /run/log/journal//6ff4e09ca827435bbe1b6efc2236a105/system@b7f19f66c640442d854033592fdedbb6-00000000000114a4-0005527d2438261c.journal

Was the journal corrupted in your case?