Hi Michael, On Fri, 2014-07-25 at 21:33 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi, > > Am 25.07.2014 20:27, schrieb Steven Post: > > > I'm running Jessie (lagging about 5 days behind with the updates) and > > use systemd-sysv. Today I noticed that there is no visual feedback from > > fsck when checking an ext4 filesystem at boot time. Since it appears the > > system is stuck (apart from the HDD LED) I would consdider this a bug. > > Is this known? I wanted to check the list first, especially since the > > system not fully up-to-date, before filing a bug report. I quick search > > didn't bring up any results. > > If the system is booted with the "quiet" kernel command line option, no > messages are shown by systemd. > You can either remove "quiet" from the kernel command line or use the > systemd.show_status=true|false > systemd.sysv_console=true|false > systemd.log_level= > systemd.log_target= > boot options to control that in a fine grained manner. I removed the 'quiet' flag from the command line (/etc/default/grub, then running update-grub), see what that does. If memory serves me correct it will generate a lot of output from the kernel itself. So I may yet change that with one of those systemd flags. The 'quiet' flag is a remnant of when the system was installed, with sysvinit, a few years back. > > Understandably, users are worried when the screen just stays black for a > while without a feedback from the system. > > So a future update of systemd will slightly change this behaviour: > whenever there is a service that failed or takes longer then a certain > threshold (iirc it's something like 5 secs), systemd will automatically > switch into verbose mode. Seems like a good solution. > > [1] has more details. > > This requires a newer upstream release which is currently prepared for > experimental and will land in unstable hopefully soon. > > > I hope that addresses the concerns most users have with the current > behaviour. Looking forward to the update, I think it will address a lot of concerns and avoid a lot panic on upgrades to Jessie once it becomes the stable release. > > > Michael > > [1] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-January/016546.html Thanks for the detailed explanation. Best regards, Steven
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