Update Warning Message: Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal'

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Greetings lovely community,

Just saw there’s a new systemd update going from v 249.7 to 250-1 today. systemd is one of those things I look out for when new major updates get released. Minor systemd updates never bother me, but any major new release may cause issues. In this case before updating, I checked to see if there’s any issues across Arch news/Reddit/forums .etc, but I didn’t see any issues reported with systemd so I went ahead and updated (haven’t rebooted yet). I did come across the following update warning message:

( 6/14) Creating temporary files...
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal/16bf55b6a80349cf9ea64c3eaee5fc51', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00081000, current=0x00081000, expected=0x00881000, ignoring.
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal/remote', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
( 7/14) Reloading device manager configuration...

I don’t think I’ve seen this update warning message before, I think it’s safe to ignore, but I’m not 100% certain at this point. Did anyone else update today and had a similar message? Please let me know if there’s any other logs/info I may need to provide or if this message is ‘normal’ and can be safely ignored. Thanks for any help, always appreciate this awesome forum :slight_smile:

Here’s the full update output in case it helps:

[scott@endeavourOS ~]$ yay
[sudo] password for scott: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community               5.9 MiB   954 KiB/s 00:06 [-----------------------] 100%
 multilib              150.3 KiB   400 KiB/s 00:00 [-----------------------] 100%
 endeavouros            23.8 KiB  29.8 KiB/s 00:01 [-----------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

warning: insufficient columns available for table display
Packages (6) cryptsetup-2.4.2-3  graphicsmagick-1.3.37-1
             reflector-simple-2021.12.27-1  systemd-250-1  systemd-libs-250-1
             systemd-sysvcompat-250-1

Total Download Size:   10.75 MiB
Total Installed Size:  45.85 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       2.88 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 reflector-simple...    23.4 KiB  80.6 KiB/s 00:00 [-----------------------] 100%
 systemd-sysvcomp...     5.6 KiB  9.72 KiB/s 00:01 [-----------------------] 100%
 systemd-libs-250...   640.8 KiB   356 KiB/s 00:02 [-----------------------] 100%
 cryptsetup-2.4.2...   587.9 KiB   302 KiB/s 00:02 [-----------------------] 100%
 graphicsmagick-1...     2.4 MiB   745 KiB/s 00:03 [-----------------------] 100%
 systemd-250-1-x86_64    7.2 MiB  1251 KiB/s 00:06 [-----------------------] 100%
 Total (6/6)            10.7 MiB  1866 KiB/s 00:06 [-----------------------] 100%
(6/6) checking keys in keyring                     [-----------------------] 100%
(6/6) checking package integrity                   [-----------------------] 100%
(6/6) loading package files                        [-----------------------] 100%
(6/6) checking for file conflicts                  [-----------------------] 100%
(6/6) checking available disk space                [-----------------------] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/6) upgrading systemd-libs                       [-----------------------] 100%
(2/6) upgrading cryptsetup                         [-----------------------] 100%
(3/6) upgrading graphicsmagick                     [-----------------------] 100%
(4/6) upgrading systemd                            [-----------------------] 100%
(5/6) upgrading reflector-simple                   [-----------------------] 100%
(6/6) upgrading systemd-sysvcompat                 [-----------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
( 1/14) Creating system user accounts...
( 2/14) Updating journal message catalog...
( 3/14) Reloading system manager configuration...
( 4/14) Updating udev hardware database...
( 5/14) Applying kernel sysctl settings...
( 6/14) Creating temporary files...
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal/16bf55b6a80349cf9ea64c3eaee5fc51', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00081000, current=0x00081000, expected=0x00881000, ignoring.
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal/remote', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
( 7/14) Reloading device manager configuration...
( 8/14) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
( 9/14) Updating linux initcpios...
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-lts.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
==> Starting build: 5.10.88-2-lts
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-lts.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 5.10.88-2-lts
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 5.15.11-arch2-1
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 5.15.11-arch2-1
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-zen.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-zen.img
==> Starting build: 5.15.11-zen1-1-zen
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-zen.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-zen.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-zen-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 5.15.11-zen1-1-zen
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-zen-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
(10/14) Reloading system bus configuration...
(11/14) Warn about old perl modules
(12/14) Check if user should be informed about rebooting after certain system package upgrades.
==> INFO: Reboot is recommended due to the upgrade of core system package(s).
(13/14) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt
(14/14) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...
:: Searching databases for updates...
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: Checking development packages...
 -> Flagged Out Of Date AUR Packages:  minecraft-launcher
 there is nothing to do
[scott@endeavourOS ~]$
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There is an issue raised here:

It seems it is already being worked on.

These are also in the Testing repo:

systemd 250-1 -> 250-2
systemd-libs 250-1 -> 250-2
systemd-sysvcompat 250-1 -> 250-2
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Ah of course I forget to check out their github! Thanks for the link and your time doing what I should’ve done already :stuck_out_tongue:

Looks like a fix was deployed to testing, so will probably see it show up soon enough on our end. I take it you’ve updated to it already in stable or testing?

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I am still on the 250-1 but I didn’t have the issue you and apparently some other users are having.

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Yeah, looks like it doesn’t appear to affect every user, I guess I just must be one of the lucky ones. Will just have to wait and see for now I think.

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If you feel adventurous, you could install 250.2 already from here (for example):

https://mirror.chaoticum.net/arch/testing/os/x86_64/

sudo pacman -U the-url-of-the-package

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If it was a more system breaking issue, I’d be tempted to stray outside of my comfort zone, but since it’s only affected me with a terminal warning message and nothing else that I can currently detect, I will play it safe and just patiently wait for it to make it’s way to us through the usual update channels. Feel free to try it out yourself and let me know how it goes, but since you don’t have the issue, it’s probably a moot point at this point :stuck_out_tongue:

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Made a small test in a virtual machine by enabling testing repos, and systemd updated to 250-2 without those error messages.

Then I downgraded back to stable repos, and systemd went to 250-1, and those error messages appeared again.

I guess the messages are some debug code that they forgot to remove before release… :wink:

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Yeah that sounds good to me, no harm in waiting for the 250-2 update then, thanks for checking it out and letting us know :smiley:

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@pebcak @manuel

[scott@endeavourOS ~]$ checkupdates; yay -Qua
systemd 250-1 -> 250-3
systemd-libs 250-1 -> 250-3
systemd-sysvcompat 250-1 -> 250-3
[scott@endeavourOS ~]$

Shall we? :wink:

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I think I already installed it. But currently I can’t verify this… :wink:

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See you in a bit!
:crossed_fingers:t5:

Edit: After a reboot, all is well here so far :partying_face:

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No error messages here. :wink:

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Got the message as well but things remained functional and it looks like these guys are on it. Always good to chase the messages down though :slight_smile:

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:: Running post-transaction hooks...
( 1/12) Creating system user accounts...
( 2/12) Updating journal message catalog...
( 3/12) Reloading system manager configuration...
( 4/12) Updating udev hardware database...
( 5/12) Applying kernel sysctl settings...
( 6/12) Creating temporary files...
( 7/12) Reloading device manager configuration...
( 8/12) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
( 9/12) Updating linux initcpios...
(10/12) Reloading system bus configuration...
(11/12) Check if user should be informed about rebooting after certain system package upgrades.
==> INFO: Reboot is recommended due to the upgrade of core system package(s).
(12/12) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt

This is a condensed output, but this time it didn’t show me the same warning issue as before, so it looks like it’s okay this time around, at least on my end.

Edit: Here’s the full output for those curious:

[scott@endeavourOS ~]$ yay
[sudo] password for scott: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                  137.6 KiB   459 KiB/s 00:00 [-----------------------] 100%
 extra is up to date
 community               5.9 MiB  1179 KiB/s 00:05 [-----------------------] 100%
 multilib is up to date
 endeavouros            23.8 KiB  32.0 KiB/s 00:01 [-----------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (4)                 Old Version  New Version  Net Change  Download Size

community/rebuild-detector  4.4.0-1      4.4.1-1        0.00 MiB       0.01 MiB
core/systemd                250-1        250-3          0.00 MiB       7.16 MiB
core/systemd-libs           250-1        250-3          0.00 MiB       0.63 MiB
core/systemd-sysvcompat     250-1        250-3          0.00 MiB       0.01 MiB

Total Download Size:    7.80 MiB
Total Installed Size:  30.44 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 rebuild-detector...     6.0 KiB  28.8 KiB/s 00:00 [-----------------------] 100%
 systemd-sysvcomp...     5.6 KiB  26.8 KiB/s 00:00 [-----------------------] 100%
 systemd-libs-250...   640.8 KiB   704 KiB/s 00:01 [-----------------------] 100%
 systemd-250-3-x86_64    7.2 MiB  1772 KiB/s 00:04 [-----------------------] 100%
 Total (4/4)             7.8 MiB  1906 KiB/s 00:04 [-----------------------] 100%
(4/4) checking keys in keyring                     [-----------------------] 100%
(4/4) checking package integrity                   [-----------------------] 100%
(4/4) loading package files                        [-----------------------] 100%
(4/4) checking for file conflicts                  [-----------------------] 100%
(4/4) checking available disk space                [-----------------------] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/4) upgrading systemd-libs                       [-----------------------] 100%
(2/4) upgrading rebuild-detector                   [-----------------------] 100%
(3/4) upgrading systemd                            [-----------------------] 100%
(4/4) upgrading systemd-sysvcompat                 [-----------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
( 1/12) Creating system user accounts...
( 2/12) Updating journal message catalog...
( 3/12) Reloading system manager configuration...
( 4/12) Updating udev hardware database...
( 5/12) Applying kernel sysctl settings...
( 6/12) Creating temporary files...
( 7/12) Reloading device manager configuration...
( 8/12) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
( 9/12) Updating linux initcpios...
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-lts.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
==> Starting build: 5.10.88-2-lts
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-lts.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 5.10.88-2-lts
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 5.15.11-arch2-1
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 5.15.11-arch2-1
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-zen.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-zen.img
==> Starting build: 5.15.11-zen1-1-zen
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-zen.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-zen.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-zen-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 5.15.11-zen1-1-zen
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-zen-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
(10/12) Reloading system bus configuration...
(11/12) Check if user should be informed about rebooting after certain system package upgrades.
==> INFO: Reboot is recommended due to the upgrade of core system package(s).
(12/12) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt
:: Searching databases for updates...
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: Checking development packages...
 -> Flagged Out Of Date AUR Packages:  minecraft-launcher
 there is nothing to do
[scott@endeavourOS ~]$
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How can that be possible now I’m going to do that the same thing so I’m not going to get that… ???

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I’m not sure I understand your question exactly, but systemd has gotten a few updates in the last couple of days. systemd went from v 249 to 250 and caused a few warning messages (nothing system breaking thankfully), and I was just commenting that the newest systemd update from v 250 to 250-3 appears to fix the warning issue message. So as long as you’re up to date on your system, you shouldn’t have any issues to worry about.

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:thinking:

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Well to my defense, when you don’t know nothing, nothing makes sense :stuck_out_tongue:

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