Log-tail outputs garbage

Setup, Configuration and Use Installation
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  • Platform information:
    • Rasberry Pi 3
    • Raspian
    • Java Runtime Environment:not sure
    • openHAB version 2.4.0 Release

After upgrading my Pi I can no longer get any logs using log-tail, all I get is garbage.


          ┼├B
              ├┴
                _
                  SSH C┌

                        ┼├B
                           ├┴
                             _
                               SSH C┌

                                     ┼├B
                                        ├┴
                                          _
                                            SSH C┌

                                                  ┼├B
                                                     ├┴
                                                       _
                                                         SSH C┌

                                                               ┼├B
                                                                  ├┴
                                                                    _
                                                                      SSH C┌

                                                                            ┼├

Not sure this will be posted with ‘log-fences’ as requested, I have no log-fences option in this topic window, nor do I have a preview.

Hopefully someone will have come across this behaviour.

Thanks, Mike.

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Stop openHAB.
Delete openhab.log and events.log
Restart openHAB.

If this doesn’t fix the problem then the issue is much more significant and it could be a sign of a corrupted file system caused by a power outage or an SD card that is wearing out.

3

That worked, thank you.

I also had a file called opehahab.log.1 and events.log.1

They were actually bigger, I killed those too.

4

It worked for 20 minutes, now it’s back to doing the same.

5

Did you also reboot in between? If so and still not fixed…

Like Rich mentioned, it looks like a corruption. In that case your only option is to make a backup and save it somewhere, reïnstall (the SD-card or another one) and restore the backup.

6

Doing a fresh install now.

Not done this for years, hope I remember what to do.

Fingers crossed.

7

On second thought, it could also be a memory issue. Either memory not freed by some process, or corruption. Before reinstalling, you could check if all memory gets consumed after a while, using top or free command.

8

Yes I rebooted in-between deleting the logs, it made no difference.

I simply downloaded the openhabian image and installed that.

That wouldn’t work until I reformatted my SD card, as suggested on another thread, so maybe the SD card was misbehaving.

In any case, it is behaving for now, thanks to all for your input.