Package: systemd Version: 247.3 Severity: normal "systemctl isolate emergency" fails to stop systemd-journald..
it's not an upstream issue since the problem does not occurr with other distributions.
having systemd-journald to be stopped is desirable since the administrator can then use e2fsck to repair filesystems(after the problematic filesystem read-only -- "mount -o ro,remount /" for instance)
upstream won't look into this because it is not happening on other distributions.
please take a look thanks