(In reply to Christian Boltz from comment #2) > Maybe the output of "strace /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald" helps? See > the attached file. This looks suspicious: openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/machine-id", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) Can you check the presence of /etc/machine-id ?