On Thursday 30 Jan 2014 11:46:38 Nowaker wrote: > > A couple months ago, I started getting I/O errors (see below) whenever > > I tried to do journalctl > > You are able to read all the journald files, aren't you? You are running > cp -r so it looks like so. `cp` would die with non-zero exit status if > there were read errors I guess. If it's possible to read the file, > journalctl should not segfault IMO, so it should be OK to file an issue. IO errors can also cause a process to hang, and enter the dreaded "D" state. These processes usually can't be killed, because they're blocked in the kernel. Paul