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After deleting my /var/log/journal by accident, I am unable to recover from the consequences. systemd-journald keeps failing over and over again every time I try to start it. when I run:

$ journalctl --verify
PASS: /run/log/journal/system.journal

which doesn't bring me one step closer to solve it because /run/log/journal/system.journal is created when I run /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald directly, which on it self outputs

$ /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
Failed to open runtime journal: Invalid argument

Things I have already tried:

1. cleaning /var/log/journal and/run/log/journal`.
2. copying /var/log/journal from another machine to both paths, running journalctl --verify to check them, and once again with --file flag.
3. changing Storage setting in /etc/systemd/journald.conf to Storage=volatile just to disable /var/log/journald.
4. Rebooting.