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Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

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On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:55:59AM -0700, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hi,
> Here the upgrade was completed except for the problem indicated in the 
> following transcript.
> 
> This page appears relevant.
> https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd/systemd-journald.service.8.en.html
> 
> /var/log/journal exists here.

What does it look like?

ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal

> The command "systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal" gives 
> complaints similar to those in the transcript.
> 
> Likely the solution is obvious once the problem is understood. What is 
> unsafe about the path transition?  How is systemd journaling meant to 
> work?

> Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ...
> Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal.
> Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal.
> Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal.
> Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27.
> Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27.
> Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27.
> Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27/system.journal.
> Detected unsafe path transition / -> /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27/system.journal.
> dpkg: error processing package systemd (--configure):
>  installed systemd package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 73

<https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11282> suggests an ownership
misconfiguration could be responsible.  Thus, seeing the output of the ls
command may help.

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Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-09-28 19:10 +0200
  Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. Nils <tuxifan@posteo.de> - 2021-09-28 19:40 +0200
    Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-09-29 22:30 +0200
      Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-09-30 03:30 +0200
  Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-28 19:50 +0200
    Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-09-29 22:30 +0200
      Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-29 22:50 +0200
        Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-30 05:40 +0200
          Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Nils <tuxifan@posteo.de> - 2021-09-30 06:00 +0200
          Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-30 13:20 +0200
          Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2021-10-02 07:10 +0200
      Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-02 09:50 +0200
  Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-28 20:40 +0200
    Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-28 20:50 +0200

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