diff --git a/src/os/FileJournal.cc b/src/os/FileJournal.cc
index e18ceba..21e57e7 100644
--- a/src/os/FileJournal.cc
+++ b/src/os/FileJournal.cc
@@ -1388,8 +1388,10 @@ void FileJournal::check_aio_completion()
      *Now we can only update journal header w/o other data.
      *The seq of for write journal header is 0.So we don't check the p->seq
      */
+    if (p->seq) {
     new_journaled_seq = p->seq;
     completed_something = true;
+    }
 
     aio_num--;
     aio_bytes -= p->len;
@@ -1415,8 +1417,8 @@ void FileJournal::check_aio_completion()
     }
 
     // maybe write queue was waiting for aio count to drop?
-    aio_cond.Signal();
   }
+    aio_cond.Signal();
 }
 #endif