Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- rsyslog-8.24.0-34.el7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- rsyslog-8.37.0-9.el8
- rsyslog-8.37.0-13.el8
Issue
- On RHEL7, rsyslogd outputs error message: 'Cannot assign requested address' [v8.24.0-34.el7]
- On RHEL8, rsyslogd outputs error message: 'imjournal: sd_journal_get_cursor() failed: Cannot assign requested address [v8.37.0-9.el8]'
Resolution
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, this issue was being tracked in Bug 1632211, and it has been fixed with errata RHSA-2019:2110 in package
rsyslog-8.24.0-38.el7or later.On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, this same issue was found on
rsyslog-8.37.0-9.el8. There is a code rebased for rsyslog from 8.37 to 8.1911 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2. That new version of rsyslog will have bugfix to this issue.If you still have the same problem after updating the rsyslog packages, please open a new support case with Red Hat Support.
Workaround - https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/modules/imjournal.html#workaroundjournalbug :
1\. Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and comment out the following default entries.
$ModLoad imjournal
$IMJournalStateFile imjournal.state
2\. Add the following line.
module(load="imjournal" StateFile="imjournal.state" WorkAroundJournalBug="on")
3\. Restart the rsyslog service.
systemctl restart rsyslog
Diagnostic Steps
- rsyslogd error message in
/var/log/message:
rsyslogd: sd_journal_get_cursor() failed: 'Cannot assign requested address' [v8.24.0-34.el7]
rsyslogd: imjournal: journal reloaded... [v8.24.0-34.el7 try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/0 ]
- Known scenarios:
- system time change
- rsyslogd reload / restart
- journald log rotation
