Systemd 250-1: Cannot set file attributes for /var/log/journal/remote

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pamac update on unstable branch:

Running post-transaction hooks...
Creating system user accounts...                                                                                                                                     [1/17]
Updating journal message catalog...                                                                                                                                  [2/17]
Reloading system manager configuration...                                                                                                                            [3/17]
Updating udev hardware database...                                                                                                                                   [4/17]
Applying kernel sysctl settings...                                                                                                                                   [5/17]
Creating temporary files...                                                                                                                                          [6/17]
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal/df4430008b69aab0a564820d7096eb4a', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00081000, current=0x00081000, expected=0x00881000, ignoring.
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal/remote', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
Reloading device manager configuration...                                                                                                                            [7/17]
Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...                                                                                                                                       [8/17]
Updating linux initcpios...
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I noticed that as well. The message is coming from systemd-tmpfiles when 30-systemd-tmpfiles.hook is run.

Running the following…

sudo SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug LC_ALL=C systemd-tmpfiles --create

…will provide more detailed output:

Setting default ACL u::rwx,g::r-x,g:wheel:r-x,g:adm:r-x,m::r-x,o::r-x on /var/log/journal.
Running create action for entry h /var/log/journal
Unable to set file attribute 0x800000 on n/a, ignoring: Operation not supported
Cannot set file attributes for '/var/log/journal', maybe due to incompatibility in specified attributes, previous=0x00080000, current=0x00080000, expected=0x00880000, ignoring.
Running create action for entry z /var/log/journal
"/var/log/journal" matches mode 2755 already.
Running create action for entry a /var/log/journal/7a2551911753462a8e997be0eab9c8f6
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This is kinda “normal”. Thing is systemd now tries to make use of btrfs features for its journal, and when it encounters something else like ext4 it throws these messages. I too think this shouldn’t be shown and even executed for file systems other than btrfs in the first place, but maybe systemd devs just thought it to be a minor issue to be fixed some day in the future or something…

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Should be fixed with chrattr-util: return EOPNOTSUPP from chrattr_full if no other failure was observed by bluca · Pull Request #21906 · systemd/systemd · GitHub.

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This is fixed in 250-2

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Thanks.

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