Re: Installing plymouth
On 1/30/19 8:26 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 03:13:52PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> systemd got two output mechanisms: status and log.
>>
>> log goes to the journal, but can also go via kmsg and the console.
>
> To the log goes all messages that are not startup status messages. So
> for example start and stop messages after the boot process finished.
>
>> status is only active on boot, before the gettys are active and the
>> output is cleared.
>
> The status output are the colorful start, failure and timeout messages
> during boot. They only go to the primary console right now, so the
> serial console.
>
> If I install plymouth and don't configure it any further on Buster,
> those status messages are sent to all consoles. So it may make sense to
> install it.
>
> The virtual console is cleared imediately before starting the getty
I wonder if we should disable clearing (ie: --noclear), so that messages
are kept.
>, so
> it's use as status output is limited to error scenarious. Also I don't
> know if the output of for example cloud-init will show up there as well.
I haven't checked, but it should be there. If I understand well, the
main issue is writing to /dev/console goes only to ttyS0 if without
plymouth.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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