Package: systemd
Version: 215-17+deb8u4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Per [1], the current version of systemd in Debian Jessie (v215) has an
issue that makes the "quiet" kernel boot parameter override values of
LogLevel= in the /etc/systemd/system.conf file (mine has LogLevel=info
explicitly set) and explicitly sets it to "notice" instead of the
documented default of "info".
There's a simple patch [2] that fixes this that I'd like to suggest
backporting.
Short of that, it'd be nice if it were documented somewhere (here?) that
an alternative workaround (aside from just removing "quiet") is to also
list "systemd.log_level=info" somewhere after quiet in the kernel boot
parameters (eg: in /etc/default/grub's GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
variable).
Without that, lots of things end up not getting logged (eg: service
start/stops, socket connections, etc.), even though the
systemd man page and other documentation would appear to imply that the
default LogLevel should be "info".
Let me know if you need any other info.
Thanks,
Brian
[1] <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-June/036954.html>
[2]
<https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=5e07a79e84ab8b045b9df1a2719f14fc84471a1d>
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (120, 'testing'), (110, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii acl 2.2.52-2
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59
ii libacl1 2.2.52-2
ii libaudit1 1:2.4-1+b1
ii libblkid1 2.25.2-6
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii libcap2 1:2.24-8
ii libcap2-bin 1:2.24-8
ii libcryptsetup4 2:1.6.6-5
ii libgcrypt20 1.6.3-2+deb8u1
ii libkmod2 18-3
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1+b1
ii libselinux1 2.3-2
ii libsystemd0 215-17+deb8u4
ii mount 2.25.2-6
ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59
ii udev 215-17+deb8u4
ii util-linux 2.25.2-6
Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii dbus 1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii libpam-systemd 215-17+deb8u4
Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn systemd-ui <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/journald.conf changed [not included]
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed [not included]
/etc/systemd/system.conf changed [not included]
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