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Bug
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Resolution: Done-Errata
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Normal
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CentOS Stream 9, rhel-9.3.0
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None
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util-linux-2.37.4-16.el9
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None
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Low
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rhel-sst-cs-plumbers
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ssg_core_services
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26
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1
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QE ack, Dev ack
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False
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No
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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None
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Pass
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Automated
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All
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None
What were you trying to do that didn't work?
CentOS Stream 9 does not carry this patch which was introduced upstream, and thus is subject to the reported issue, where sometimes `logger` will report the process start time instead of the current time in log messages.
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/1866
Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:
util-linux-2.37.4-15.el9
How reproducible:
Sometimes - depends on system load
Steps to reproduce
- dnf -y install strace util-linux
- (sleep 5;date;date) | strace -e read,sendmsg logger
Expected results
read(0, "Wed Jan 10 05:38:26 PM UTC 2024\n", 4096) = 32 sendmsg(3, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="<13>Jan 10 17:38:26 root: ", iov_len=26}, {iov_base="Wed Jan 10 05:38:26 PM UTC 2024", iov_len=31}], msg_iovlen=2, msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 57 read(0, "Wed Jan 10 05:38:26 PM UTC 2024\n", 4096) = 32 sendmsg(3, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="<13>Jan 10 17:38:26 root: ", iov_len=26}, {iov_base="Wed Jan 10 05:38:26 PM UTC 2024", iov_len=31}], msg_iovlen=2, msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 57
Actual results
read(0, "Wed Jan 10 05:38:26 PM UTC 2024\n", 4096) = 32 sendmsg(3, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="<13>Jan 10 17:38:21 root: ", iov_len=26}, {iov_base="Wed Jan 10 05:38:26 PM UTC 2024", iov_len=31}], msg_iovlen=2, msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 57 read(0, "Wed Jan 10 05:38:26 PM UTC 2024\n", 4096) = 32 sendmsg(3, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="<13>Jan 10 17:38:26 root: ", iov_len=26}, {iov_base="Wed Jan 10 05:38:26 PM UTC 2024", iov_len=31}], msg_iovlen=2, msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 57
Note in the examples above, the difference is hard to notice, but logger reports 17:38:21 (process start time) instead of 17:38:26, when the message was emitted.
