This almost drove me mad. I tried to debug a crash on my raspberry pi using
But I only received "Specifying boot ID or boot offset has no effect, no persistent journal was found".
I tried changing the setting to "Storage=persistent" but changing /etc/systemd/journald.conf didn't help. There are no files in /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/ either that could interfere. journalctl showed the log being written to /run/log/journal so my settings were clearly ignored. After an hour of trying and googling I gave up and wanted to ask here just to find this post.
Somehow the solution noted here was impossible to find for me. I hadn't thought of checking raspi-config.
It would really help to better document this. Or maybe google at least indexes this and leads any search queries here.
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journalctl -b -1I tried changing the setting to "Storage=persistent" but changing /etc/systemd/journald.conf didn't help. There are no files in /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/ either that could interfere. journalctl showed the log being written to /run/log/journal so my settings were clearly ignored. After an hour of trying and googling I gave up and wanted to ask here just to find this post.
Somehow the solution noted here was impossible to find for me. I hadn't thought of checking raspi-config.
It would really help to better document this. Or maybe google at least indexes this and leads any search queries here.
Statistics: Posted by luz — Wed Nov 26, 2025 7:25 am