{"id":8,"date":"2017-10-07T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxadmin.melberi.com\/uncategorized\/syslog-error-imjournal-fscanf-on-state"},"modified":"2017-10-07T17:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:35:05","slug":"error-imjournal-fscanf-on-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/linuxadmin\/syslog\/error-imjournal-fscanf-on-state","title":{"rendered":"Syslog Error: imjournal: fscanf on state file `\/var\/lib\/rsyslog\/imjournal.state’ failed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syslog Stopped working and not printing the message logs. Error Log Shows the message : imjournal: fscanf on state file\u00a0imjournal.state<\/p>\n

Error<\/u><\/h3>\n

#systemctl status rsyslog.service <\/b>shows the following error<\/p>\n

imjournal: fscanf on state file `\/var\/lib\/rsyslog\/imjournal.state’ failed \u00a0[v8.23.0 try http:\/\/www.rsyslog.com\/e\/2027 ]<\/p>\n

Reason<\/u><\/h3>\n

File \/var\/lib\/rsyslog\/imjournal.state<\/b> got corrupted due to bad I\/O.<\/p>\n

Solution:<\/u><\/h3>\n

Remove\u00a0\/var\/lib\/rsyslog\/imjournal.state <\/b>file and restart the rsyslog service<\/p>\n

#rm\u00a0\/var\/lib\/rsyslog\/imjournal.state<\/b>
\n#systemctl restart \u00a0rsyslog.service<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syslog Stopped working and not printing the message logs. Error Log Shows the message : imjournal: fscanf on state file\u00a0imjournal.state Error #systemctl status rsyslog.service shows the following error imjournal: fscanf… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syslog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t