[chris at f28h ~]$ sudo journalctl --verify 15f1c8: Data object references invalid entry at 4855f8 File corruption detected at /run/log/journal/bbe68372db9f4c589a1f67f008e70864/system.journal:4854c0 (of 8388608 bytes, 56%). FAIL: /run/log/journal/bbe68372db9f4c589a1f67f008e70864/system.journal (Bad message) PASS: /var/log/journal/bbe68372db9f4c589a1f67f008e70864/system.journal PASS: /var/log/journal/bbe68372db9f4c589a1f67f008e70864/user-1000.journal [chris at f28h ~]$ ls -l /run/log/journal/bbe68372db9f4c589a1f67f008e70864/ total 8192 -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Jun 6 14:28 system.journal [chris at f28h ~]$ systemd-238-8.git0e0aa59.fc28.x86_64 It doesn't seem to matter whether this is on volatile or persistent media, the very first journal file has corruption, subsequent ones don't. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this. [chris at f28h ~]$ sudo journalctl --verify 32ccc28: Invalid data object at hash entry 5179 of 233016 File corruption detected at /var/log/journal/bbe68372db9f4c589a1f67f008e70864/system.journal:32cca20 (of 58720256 bytes, 90%). FAIL: /var/log/journal/bbe68372db9f4c589a1f67f008e70864/system.journal (Bad message) PASS: /var/log/journal/bbe68372db9f4c589a1f67f008e70864/user-1000.journal -- Chris Murphy