Several identical machines all running Fedora 21 in a cluster are all exhibiting identical issues:
Attempting to pull a user journal with journalctl -r gives:
No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
Trying journalctl --user -r gives:
No journal files were found.
Checking in /var/log/journal/[whatever] yields system journals (which seem to work fine as root) and one or two user journals. Logging in as a user that has a user journal in this directory shows that these users can pull their own journal just fine.
It seems like journals are being created for some users but not others. I can find nothing different about the users with journals, and it's not the same users exhibiting the problem on every system, despite identical /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow files across the systems.
All of this worked fine on Fedora 20.
I believe this is related to this question.
I had this issue on Ubuntu 17.10. One of my users could view his journal entries, but another couldn't. The issue was resolved by changing the Storage directive of the
[Journal]
section of/etc/systemd/journald.conf
topersistent
:Edit
journald.conf
Original Config
New Config
After a restart of journalctl, all users could view their respective logs:
From the journald.conf man page: